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Audio Overland II: Resistance

Published on 24 April 2013

Maxine Clarke curates Overland’s second spoken word edition, featuring ten original recordings of audio poetry exploring the theme ‘resistance’. Issue includes our first international spoken word artist, Ngwatilo Mawiyoo.

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210 Autumn 2013

ISBN 978-0-9871301-8-1

Published on 26 March 2013

Terror and the Great American Novel; coming out queer and Muslim; how environmentalists get climate change wrong; plus the winners of the 2012 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize.

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209 Summer 2012

ISBN ISBN 978-0-9871301-6-7

Published on 21 November 2012

Crisis and time, Riot Grrrls and Russia, JD Salinger’s toilet, indefinite detention, the looting of Darwin, radical theatre, counter-hegemonic writing, how writers survive, and more.

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208 Spring 2012

ISBN 978-0-9871301-5-0

Published on 23 August 2012

The death of newspapers, a reply on fat activism, the potential of outsider porn and much, much more.

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Audio Overland

Published on 6 August 2012

Maxine Clarke curates Overland’s first selection of spoken word, featuring seven original recordings of audio poetry.

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Issue 207.5: winter fiction

Published on 30 July 2012

Emerging editor and Overland editorial assistant Miranda Camboni guest edits the first in Overland’s online fiction series.

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207 Winter 2012

ISBN 978-0-9871301-4-3

Published on 13 June 2012

Human rights versus human freedom; priorities for the women's movement; politics of steampunk; the case for fat activism and much, much more.

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206 Autumn 2012

ISBN 978-0-9871301-3-6

Published on 19 March 2012

A mysterious death in Melbourne’s west, the European meltdown, the 2011 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize and much more.

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Online Occupy Issue

Published on 30 January 2012

In the wake of economic crises, political atomisation and an increase in militarised policing, what does the Occupy movement mean?

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205 Summer 2011

ISBN 978-0-9871301-2-9

Published on 2 December 2011

Mattias Gardell on the Oslo massacre, the politics of Indigenous languages, an extract from Alexis Wright’s forthcoming novel and much more.

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204 Spring 2011

ISBN 978-0-9871301-1-2

Published on 27 August 2011

Malalai Joya on why Australia must leave Afghanistan, a kidnapping in Iraq, a new Left in philosophy and much, much more.

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203 Winter 2011

ISBN 978-0-9871301-0-5

Published on 2 June 2011

The shared history of black, queer and convict struggles, ASIO’s early days, Islamism and the Left debated and much, much more.

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202 Autumn 2011

ISBN 978-0-9805346-9-6

Published on 30 March 2011

The theory of Wikileaks; the art of Shaun Tan; volunteerism and neoliberalism in literary culture; and much, much more.

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201 Summer 2010

ISBN 978-0-9805346-8-9

Published on 29 November 2010

Afghanistan, liberalism and bigotry; creativity and labour; the art of drawing money; and much, much more.

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Print Issue 200 Spring 2010

ISBN 978-0-9805346-7-2

Published on 4 September 2010

Special anniversary edition: politics of Noel Pearson; gender, capitalism, anorexia; new fiction by Tsiolkas, Hospital and Hitchcock; collaborative celebratory poem and more.

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Print Issue 199 Winter 2010

ISBN 978-0-9805346-6-5

Published on 31 May 2010

Book pirates, the pros and cons of the Greens, Paul Kelly’s insider histories, Cate Kennedy on disconnecting for creativity, and much more.

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Print Issue 198 Autumn 2010

ISBN 978-0-9805346-5-8

Published on March 2010

Margaret Simons on the future of reading; Mungo MacCallum on Labor and refugees; Raewyn Connell on the Left's past, present and prospects; plus the machinery of death row, Zionism in Australia, new fiction, poetry and more.

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189 Summer 2007

ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9

Published on 21 November 2007

The pleasures of reading, the NT intervention, utopianism in Paraguay, O'Lincoln contra Hamilton, the secret history of the IPA.