- 115: SPACE
with A Sometimes
114: NO THEME 13
with J Toledo & C Tse
113: INVISIBLE WALLS
with A Walker & D Disney
112: TREAT
with T Dearborn
111: BABY
with S Deo & L Ferney
110: POP!
with Z Frost & B Jessen
109: NO THEME 12
with C Maling & N Rhook
108: DEDICATION
with L Patterson & L Garcia-Dolnik
107: LIMINAL
with B Li
106: OPEN
with C Lowe & J Langdon
105: NO THEME 11
with E Grills & E Stewart
104: KIN
with E Shiosaki
103: AMBLE
with E Gomez and S Gory
102: GAME
with R Green and J Maxwell
101: NO THEME 10
with J Kinsella and J Leanne
100: BROWNFACE
with W S Dunn
99: SINGAPORE
with J Ip and A Pang
97 & 98: PROPAGANDA
with M Breeze and S Groth
96: NO THEME IX
with M Gill and J Thayil
95: EARTH
with M Takolander
94: BAYT
with Z Hashem Beck
93: PEACH
with L Van, G Mouratidis, L Toong
92: NO THEME VIII
with C Gaskin
91: MONSTER
with N Curnow
90: AFRICAN DIASPORA
with S Umar
89: DOMESTIC
with N Harkin
88: TRANSQUEER
with S Barnes and Q Eades
87: DIFFICULT
with O Schwartz & H Isemonger
86: NO THEME VII
with L Gorton
85: PHILIPPINES
with Mookie L and S Lua
84: SUBURBIA
with L Brown and N O'Reilly
83: MATHEMATICS
with F Hile
82: LAND
with J Stuart and J Gibian
81: NEW CARIBBEAN
with V Lucien
80: NO THEME VI
with J Beveridge
57.1: EKPHRASTIC
with C Atherton and P Hetherington
57: CONFESSION
with K Glastonbury
56: EXPLODE
with D Disney
55.1: DALIT / INDIGENOUS
with M Chakraborty and K MacCarter
55: FUTURE MACHINES
with Bella Li
54: NO THEME V
with F Wright and O Sakr
53.0: THE END
with P Brown
52.0: TOIL
with C Jenkins
51.1: UMAMI
with L Davies and Lifted Brow
51.0: TRANSTASMAN
with B Cassidy
50.0: NO THEME IV
with J Tranter
49.1: A BRITISH / IRISH
with M Hall and S Seita
49.0: OBSOLETE
with T Ryan
48.1: CANADA
with K MacCarter and S Rhodes
48.0: CONSTRAINT
with C Wakeling
47.0: COLLABORATION
with L Armand and H Lambert
46.1: MELBOURNE
with M Farrell
46.0: NO THEME III
with F Plunkett
45.0: SILENCE
with J Owen
44.0: GONDWANALAND
with D Motion
43.1: PUMPKIN
with K MacCarter
43.0: MASQUE
with A Vickery
42.0: NO THEME II
with G Ryan
41.1: RATBAGGERY
with D Hose
41.0: TRANSPACIFIC
with J Rowe and M Nardone
40.1: INDONESIA
with K MacCarter
40.0: INTERLOCUTOR
with L Hart
39.1: GIBBERBIRD
with S Gory
39.0: JACKPOT!
with S Wagan Watson
38.0: SYDNEY
with A Lorange
37.1: NEBRASKA
with S Whalen
37.0: NO THEME!
with A Wearne
36.0: ELECTRONICA
with J Jones
CONTRIBUTORS
Verity Spott
A Discussion on Verity Spott with 6 Poems
I suppose what we’ve been trying to do so far is establish a language space that deliberately alienates anyone and anything that enforces the gender binary. Pretty simple.
Posted in CHAPBOOKS
Tagged Charlotte Thießen, Joel Scott, Verity Spott
Sonnet
Now skim the shock of sky that split without us, sinking through the plaiting of the reids: You slept, and whispered all your silence out, the shoreline sang out threats in choking heaves. The houses, polder fizzing in the ear. …
Posted in SPOTT
Tagged Verity Spott
Sonnet
She creaked beneath the weight that taught His skin; His tense electric ghost to be put out amongst the ropes and ladders of His doubt; He’d shake to let his body climb back in. They pushed her organs into disbelief …
Posted in SPOTT
Tagged Verity Spott
Sonnet
for Dolly Coming home to all of most alarm, there across the shaving edge, & back stuck in, be shored & built back, snared to granted joy or tensile pins. If you are there, oh there again is us, colliding …
Posted in SPOTT
Tagged Verity Spott
‘So in your silent still small throat …’
[1]So in your silent still small throat my broken voice may sing. I’d say a mile off the shore is the wind farm. One hundred and sixty eight windmills. I wonder what their sound will be. As they were being …
Posted in SPOTT
Tagged Verity Spott
From a Reverie
In single minute gulps like propranolol the night sways, steadies to a short halt. And the neck stops. Stops wide open to the space it now appears to be in: Belgium, on the north coast where it now seems that …
Posted in SPOTT
Tagged Verity Spott
Sonnet
My young domestic lifeline came to sit exhausted, by the ashes of its lot for what these boys so bravely now commit when life itself is grounded in their rot? If I would be the guillotine, its rungs the head …
Posted in SPOTT
Tagged Verity Spott
iii. (Eris)
I’m a part of a cult. We follow the Goddess of discord. We’re going to bring down the government. We don’t believe in things that we don’t need to / we use fruits we splendour & never harm. I’m all …
Posted in 67: A BRITISH / IRISH
Tagged Verity Spott