Review by Nigel Featherstone It is a widely held view that the publishing industry is currently going through a rough patch. Or, to put it more dramatically, it is in …
QUESTIONING MASCULINITY, VIOLENCE, AND ADVENTURE: an interview with Adrian Caesar
Adrian Caesar is an Australian writer with a terrific literary capacity, an engaging warmth and wit, and a deep sense of humanity. Born in the United Kingdom, Caesar emigrated to …
ACTS OF AFFIRMATION: an interview with Biff Ward
Biff Ward is an Australian writer and political activist. Her most recent work is In My Mother’s Hands (Allen & Unwin, 2014), a memoir that was long-listed for the 2015 …
What Lies at the Core of a Successful Family: Nigel Featherstone’s The Beach Volcano
Review by Amanda Hickey The Albury family of Sydney’s Elizabeth Bay are about money and social standing, and although they appear prickly and self-absorbed, it is the father’s eightieth birthday …
LOVE, CHOOKS, AND SOLITUDE: an interview with Nigel Featherstone
Nigel Featherstone has been our brave leader at Verity La for the past four and a half years, and in that time has published and promoted the work of numerous …
New and Enticing Shapes: Andrew Galan’s That Place of Infested Roads (life during wartime)
Review by Nigel Featherstone What is it that we are to make of poetry, especially in an era when even well-written and relevant fiction is being ignored for reality cooking …
VOX: NIGEL FEATHERSTONE
Vox: NIGEL FEATHERSTONE The Verity La Forum was conducted by Alec Patric from July 2011 to December 2011 Forum Question: A New Archaeology I need to be honest: I’m struggling. …
Fistfuls of truth and heart
Now that Verity La is up and running, and 2010 is careering to its end, we thought it’s probably about time to introduce ourselves as co-editors of what has become …
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