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P.S. For pieces that only appeared in print, sometimes you can find them online in electronic periodical databases in your university or local library.
Fiction
- ‘Damboon‘, Verity La, 7 March 2017
- Reprinted in Michele Seminara, Robbie Coburn and Laura McPhee-Browne Eds, Embody: Verity La Anthology II, 2020
- ‘Hector Fucking Katros’, Tincture Journal, 16(Summer 2016) [now available free]
- ‘The Road North From Toodleton’, Spineless Wonders Amanda Lohrey Selects digital long story series, February 2014
- ‘Statement of Claims on Behalf of My Father’, Sleepers Almanac 8, eds. Zoe Dattner and Louise Swinn, 2013
- ‘The Secret of the Dark Elves’, Meanjin, 69:3(2010)
Poetry
Books
- Hyperbole (collection), Recent Work Press, 2021
- The Things the Mind Sees Happen (chapbook), Slow Loris/Puncher & Wattman, 2019
Individual poems
- ‘Against Activity‘, The Canberra Times, 11 September 2021
- ‘Memorandum‘, Going Down Swinging online, 27 Aug 2021
- ‘Ekphrasis: William Robinson, Passage of light from the sea at Numinbah, 2002’, Island Magazine 159 (2020)
- ‘Ekphrasis: Bill Henson, Untitled 128/13, 1985/86, type C colour photograph’, Cordite Poetry Review 1 May 2020
- This work has been slightly recatalogued as ‘Untitled #13, 1985-86 / gallery catalogue reference #128‘ since the poem was titled
- ‘Birds‘, Australian Book Review 419 (March 2020)
- ‘Dad‘, Meanjin 78:4 (Summer 2019)
- ‘The slow clock‘, Cordite Poetry Review, 18 August 2019
- ‘Consolation and its discontents‘, Meanjin 78:2 (Winter 2019)
- ‘Unless‘, Barrow Street 4×2, February 2019
- ‘The stone’, Oxford Poetry 17:2(Winter 2017-18)
- ‘Exile‘ and ‘Industry, Melbourne‘, Meanjin 77:1(Autumn 2018)
- See also: reading of ‘Industry, Melbourne’ in Meanjin podcast, March 2018
- ‘The end of men‘, Cordite Poetry Review, 1 February 2018
- ‘Pants! Notes towards a musical’, foam:e 14 (March 2017)
- ‘Rooms’, foam:e 14 (March 2017)
- See also: reading in Queer Out Here audio zine, issue 01, 2018
- See also: reading on ABC Radio National, Off Track presents Queer Out Here, first air date 16 Mar 2019 (podcast download available)
- ‘Age of reason’, Eureka Street, 20 June 2016
- ‘Highway, Shepparton’, Eureka Street, 20 June 2016
- See also: reading in Queer Out Here audio zine, issue 01, 2018
- See also: reading on ABC Radio National, Off Track presents Queer Out Here, first air date 16 Mar 2019 (podcast download available)
- ‘Found photo’, Eureka Street, 20 June 2016
- ‘Pulled teeth, age 36’, Island Magazine, 145 (May 2016)
- ‘Men’, The London Magazine website, 23 May 2016
- ‘Lust’, ‘Siren’ and ‘Letters home’, Orbis, 173 (Autumn 2015) (featured poet for the issue)
- ‘Evening’, Westerly, 60:2(November 2015)
- ‘The loved body’, The Adas 2015: The Ada Cambridge Biographical Prose Prize, The Ada Cambridge Poetry Prize, The Young Adas Short Story Prize and Graphic Short Story Prize, Williamstown Literary Festival, June 2015 (Runner-up for the Ada Cambridge Prize)
- ‘On Waking With the Pain‘, Cordite Poetry Review, 1 May 2015
- ‘The Things the Mind Sees Happen [paywalled]’, Australian Book Review, March 2015
- ‘Curator‘, Cordite Poetry Review, 1 Feb 2015
- ‘The deep water: On rape’, Montreal International Poetry Prize Long List Anthology 2013
- ‘Mueller River estuary’, Eureka Street, 16 July 2013
- ‘I am driving with my father’, Eureka Street, 16 July 2013
- ‘Gestalt with seagulls’, Cordite Poetry Review, 1 June 2013
- ‘Poem of a new driver’, Meanjin, 72:2(2013) [also available as an audio recording in the Meanjin podcast September 2013]
- ‘Housemates, now and forever’, 21D, Issue 4: Light (2013)
- ‘The family silver, 1999’, Famous Reporter, 44 (2012)
- ‘Family photos’, Westerly, 57:2(2012)
- ‘The note from God’, Best Australian Poems 2012, ed. John Tranter, Black Inc, 2012
- ‘In the long grass’, Antipodes, June 2012
- ‘Mum’, Eureka Street, 7 Feb 2012
- ‘The Lee of the Wind’, Visible Ink, 23(2011)
- ‘Mum 2’, Hecate, 37:1(2011)
- ‘Core of things’, The Seagull Poetry Prize, Williamstown Literary Festival, 2011 (Runner-up for the prize)
- ‘Interlude in the bedchamber of Martin Luther and Katherina Von Bora’, The Seagull Poetry Prize, Williamstown Literary Festival, 2011
- ‘Who made the bird drop’, Islet, Winter 2010
- ‘Unexpected Man’, The Seagull Poetry Prize: Williamstown Literary Festival 2010, Williamstown Literary Festival, 2010
- ‘Gospel’, Eureka Street, 13 April 2010
- ‘The Night Train’, Eureka Street, 8 Sep 2009
- ‘Renovations in the Suburbs’, The Seagull Poetry Prize 2009: The hidden life of suburbs, Williamstown Literary Festival, 1 May 2009
- ‘Bullants’, And Collective 1(2003)
- ‘With Our Clothes On’, Antipodes, Fall 2000
Audio
- Reading: ABC Radio National, Off Track presents Queer Out Here, first air date 16 Mar 2019 (podcast download available)
- ‘Highway, Shepparton‘ appeared previously in Eureka Street
- ‘Rooms‘ appeared previously in foam:e
- Reading had appeared previously in Queer Out Here audio zine, issue 01, 2018.
- Prerecorded contribution (a book recommendation) in Meanjin podcast Episode #6, December 2018
- Reading: ‘Industry, Melbourne’ in Meanjin podcast Episode #1, March 2018
- Reading: ‘Highway, Shepparton‘ (appeared previously in Eureka Street) and ‘Rooms‘ (appeared previously in foam:e), in Queer Out Here audio zine, issue 01, 2018
- Reading: ‘Poem of a new driver’, recorded for Meanjin podcast, September 2013
- Reading: excerpt from ‘When I first met Martin’, recorded for Varuna Writer-a-Day, 4 Mar 2012
Non fiction
- Memoir/personal essay: ‘All times are the same time: A response to Shannon Burns on childhood sexual assault‘, Meanjin, Spring 2018
- A guest blog post on a favourite short story for Laurie Steed’s The Gum Wall: Runaway by Alice Munro – by Belinda Rule, 24 July 2014
- A blog post for Meanjin‘s subscriber drive: Depressing The Almost Moon, 22 May 2014
- A light-hearted comparative book review: Meanjin Tournament of Books Final Round: Breath vs Sea Hearts , 24 December 2013