Love in Abundance and Decay: Vessels of Love 2026

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  • Serpent (Anna Jacobson)Serpent (Anna Jacobson)
    By the time I see you, seventy-one angels have descended from heaven, chopped off your hands and feet, split your tongue. You crawl along your belly. Vanish. By the time ... Read More
  • SONDER SECLUSION (Faizan Adil)SONDER SECLUSION (Faizan Adil)
    Artist’s Statement Sonder: the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own. Seclusion: the state of being private and away from other ... Read More
UNpersoned Podcast

Tune in to the UNpersoned Podcast where managing editor Michele Seminara unpacks what's happening in the arts and literary scenes with guests from Australia and around the world. 

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The Vault

Fiction, poetry, essays, and criticism published in Verity La since 2013.

An archive of writing committed to artistic independence, freedom of expression, and resistance to ideological conformity.
  • VERITY LA POETRY PODCAST Episode 15: Rebecca JessenVERITY LA POETRY PODCAST Episode 15: Rebecca Jessen
    REBECCA JESSEN: In this episode of the Verity La Poetry Podcast, Podcast Producer Alice Allan talks with Rebecca Jessen about her first collection Ask Me About the Future, out now ... Read More
  • Stains on a Map (Linda Godfrey)Stains on a Map (Linda Godfrey)
    too late to hill up asparagus to blanch it, to drink tea in a Russian port in winter, torpedo the Atlantic. Reflux stains the map with the telling of your ... Read More

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