1 As I drive down Selkirk road for the first time in months, the thing that strikes me most is the number of cattle I see; on both sides of …
Spirit of Renewal Poetry Reading
Welcome to SPIRIT OF RENEWAL, the Manly Art Gallery and Museum Poetry Alive Reading. This annual event, a synergy of art and poetry, is now in its 7th year. In …
An Interview With Saddiq Dzukogi: Your Crib, My Qibla
Saddiq Dzukogi with Verity La Poetry Editors Michele Seminara and Robbie Coburn Wineglass When your mother found strands of your hair hung up in the teeth of your comb, your …
Writing the River: Robbie Coburn reviews Robert Adamson’s Reaching Light
Review by Robbie Coburn I have been considering how it would feel to read Robert Adamson’s work for the first time through this book, remembering the first time I read …
Wreck (Robbie Coburn)
Farm Study Nothing much ever happens. a muteness that lies down in darkness cleanly parted before the drive of rain settling behind the mountains the sculpted gums have long been …
EMBODY & GRIEF FOR HIRE
Launch of Verity La Anthology No. 2 EMBODY What does it mean to be embodied in human or animal form? How does our body — its size, colour, race, gender, …
VERITY LA POETRY PODCAST Episode 13: Jordie Albiston
JORDIE ALBISTON: In this episode of the Verity La Poetry Podcast, Podcast Producer Alice Allan and Poetry Co-editor Robbie Coburn talk with Jordie Albiston about the relationship between poetry and …
A VERITY LA ANNOUNCEMENT!
Dear Readers, Verity La will not be publishing this week as we are working on getting our new website up and running. DID I JUST SAY NEW WEBSITE? Yessiree, a …
VERITY LA POETRY PODCAST Episode 2: Ian McBryde
IAN MCBRYDE: In this month’s Verity La Poetry Podcast, Podcast Producer Alice Allan and Poetry Co-editor Robbie Coburn talk with Ian McBryde about his poems ‘Orchid’ and ‘Serpentine’, his book Slivers …
An Impulse / Action (Robbie Coburn)
Woodstock- struck by winter a cold wind breaks up the sky. cold /makes decisions (ending) a shade of frost descended on the grasses. to the west a light beyond the …