Publication Date: Jun 2021
RRP: $19.95
ISBN: 9781922464439
Format: Paperback
Size: 153mm x 234mm
Pages: 96
Category: Verge - Creative Writing

Verge 2021

Home

Edited by Jessica Phillips, Anders Villani and Georgia White


The death of a bird haunts the relationship between two siblings. A lonely narrator waits for a bus that never comes. A boy makes soup with his grandmother and wonders about the memories she has buried.

For the sixteenth edition of Verge, we asked contributors to reflect on the theme of Home, a word that took on a new meaning after a year of solitude and separation. We chose this theme because we hoped to read about homes of all kinds: unhomely homes, abandoned homes, unlikely homes, forgotten homes, found homes. And we were awed by the beauty, depth and variety in the pieces we received. Our writers explored homes of past, present and future; they probed the bleakness of domesticity and mourned the loss of what was once held close. They wrote about familial ties and found communities, about the painfulness of childhood and the bonds of ancestry. Writing, indeed, to make a home in.


Jessica Phillips

Jessica Phillips is a PhD candidate in Literary Studies at Monash University. Her thesis examines empathy between human and nonhuman animals in contemporary Australian literature. She works as an editor in youth mental health research and her non-fiction writing has...
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Anders Villani

Anders Villani is the author of two poetry collections: Aril Wire (Five Islands Press, 2018); and Totality, forthcoming in 2022 from Recent Work Press. Assistant poetry editor of Australian Book Review, he lives in Melbourne.
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Georgia White

Georgia White is a writer, editor and researcher based in Naarm/Melbourne. She is currently completing a PhD in Literary Studies, examining space, mobility and gender in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gothic texts. Her writing has appeared in Australian Book Review, Overland...
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