In this highly anticipated new issue, we encounter brilliant examples of what writing can do in a hypernormal time – whether that's Benjamin Gready on the absurdity of fieldwork on land under active occupation or Zahid Gamieldien's short story about a dancing rat who finds itself enmeshed in systems too shadowy to be true. But, as with the emotional cycles of resistance, hope and snark are features too. Dan Hogan considers the lawn as a class obsession, and π.ο. asks a question: why people hate poetry? We also read about a rakhasa family who passes on wisdom to their young kin, a story by Shefali Mathew. And you’ll find new poetry by Eli McLean, Fiona Hile and Sol Chan, among others, as well as a comic by Safdar Ahmed, plus heaps more. Co-editors Evelyn Araluen and Jonathan Dunk write in the editorial, "Writing always matters, but it matters most directly in the face of this kind of thuggish assault on language, our first and last commons. We can’t let the bastards have it.”
OVERLAND 194 autumn 2009 ISBN 978-0-9805346-1-0 published 22 March 2009
OVERLAND 192spring 2008 ISBN 978-0-9775171-9-0 published 31 August 2008
OVERLAND 191 winter 2008 ISBN 978-0-9775171-8-3published 23 May 2008
OVERLAND 188 spring 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-5-2published 20 September 2007
WEB CONTENT ONLY published 12 November 2008 ‘Ours is in colour’: The New Left of the sixties, forty years on Raewyn Connell on 1968 and all that. What was the […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 IN PRAISE OF THE COMMON READER Ramona Koval delivers the Overland lecture The common reader … differs from the critic […]
OVERLAND 199 winter 2010 ISBN 978-0-9805346-6-5 published 31 May 2010 Networked communities Keri Glastonbury reports on the 2009 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets The winner […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 THE SKY AS COMMON GROUND Mary-Ellen Stringer falls from grace onto Aboriginal land There is a joke that circulates among […]
WEB CONTENT ONLY published 18 October 2010 An arts council by any other name Christopher Madden responds to Ben Eltham’s ‘Culture is bigger than the arts’ In his article Culture […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 HOWARD’S DESERT STORM Liz Conor on paternity, paternalism and Aboriginal children I thought I knew, or at least had some […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 A SOCIABLE PARADISE Kevin Foster considers the quest for an authentic Australia Between May and October 1851, the Great Exhibition […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 HEARTS STARVE AS WELL AS BODIES Tom O’Lincoln on Clive Hamilton’s critique of Western society In June 2007 the Australian […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 TEACHERWOMAN Olga Olenich faces dragons at tech school Perhaps a quarter of a century ago. Can it be that long? […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 “THIS FASCIST MOB” Shane Cahill examines the wartime investigation into Japanese militarism and the Institute of Public Affairs “Fascism rears […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 ART MAKES THE WORLD Nicole Moore remembers Mona Brand, 1915-2007 ASIO’s 379-page file on Mona Brand will be a rich […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 THE HOTEL LOBBY Peter sat in a cane chair looking around at the hotel lobby. Outside, his parents were unloading […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 THE EFFORTLESSNESS OF BEING Okay so Larry and I have split, so now is the time to make that appointment […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2000 WINTER AFTERNOON Malcolm smiled at what he saw out the window as he crushed the pills in the pestle to […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 LOOKING OUT AT THE LIGHTS: NEW POETRY Kerry Leves Laurie Duggan: The Passenger (UQP, ISBN 070223555, $23.95) The Passenger is […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 GOTHS AND VANDALS Lucy Sussex Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver (eds): The Anthology of Colonial Australian Gothic Fiction (Melbourne University […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 UNPICKING THE UNIVERSE Louise Swinn Alex Jones: Helen Garner and the Meaning of Everything (Puncher & Wattmann, ISBN 0975240552, $25) […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 SWITCHED OFF: AUSTRALIA’S MEDIA Jamie Cooke Michael Gawenda: American Notebook: A Personal and Political Journey (Melbourne University Press, ISBN 052285253X, […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 THE FIRST POET OF HIS PEOPLE Barry Dickins Bruce Pascoe: Convincing Ground: Learning to Fall in Love with Your Country […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 IN QUITE A STATE Lyndall Ryan Raymond Evans: A History of Queensland (Cambridge University Press, ISBN 13978521545396, $36.95) Beverly Kingston: […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 RULING PASSIONS Nathan Hollier Mike Donaldson and Scott Poynting: Ruling Class Men: Money, Sex, Power (Peter Lang, ISBN 9783039111374, US$57.95) […]
OVERLAND 199 winter 2010 ISBN 978-0-9805346-6-5 published 31 May 2010 The pirate code Emmett Stinson on copyright, books and music Right now publishers are abuzz with discussions of ‘book futures’ […]
OVERLAND 195 winter 2009 ISBN 978-0-9805346-2-7 published 21 May 2009 Germaine Greer on Kevin Rudd, things fall apart in Afghanistan, writers against climate change, and much more. Contents Regulars Jeff […]
OVERLAND 188 spring 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-5-2published 20 September 2007 Years ago I lived – not quite legally – in a studio in St Kilda’s landmark George Hotel. I owned an […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 Travelling Types 1 The boy reading On the Road at the railway station & the boy sneering at him, having […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 Shackled He had a choice but chose to look away we had a choice but chose to look away fear […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 Elegy For in memoriam, Dave McComb Concurrent, we fill the city. Without, the air is too full though we break […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 Neath Colliery: a found poem Years later in the 1960’s [sic], the by then huge dump of chitter, shale, pit […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 Culture and Its Terrors Similes, nature analogies, never so apt to term the pitfalls, assaults upon the soul’s integrity. Imagine […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 Agnus dei However white the wool, however spotless no lamb nor goat can yield up blood to cleanse; for blood, […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 A Genuine Fact When lies pass for truth then truth must go underground to live for a while with the […]
OVERLAND 199 winter 2010 ISBN 978-0-9805346-6-5 published 31 May 2010 Waiting for the green man One broad leathery purplish leaf was bent over at the tip. It resembled, in some […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 Cops on Horses happy slap the cops on horses as they slap us to make some room and chuck something […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 Being Interviewed in The Scottish Book Collector accompanied by Les Murray In honour of the benign horror My life is […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 At Home Washing the dishes she pauses. Her boisterous son pulls her blouse. “Mummy, come here.” She follows his footsteps […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 Advance Australian Fear Australians all, we can’t rejoice ‘cos our PM’s not fair. He’s taken away our voice And stuffed […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 waiting for a change call now, yes, i am the one who buys the groceries for the household and pays […]
OVERLAND 201 summer 2010 ISBN 978-0-9805346-8-9 published 29 November 2010 Bruce Petty drawing money Robert Phiddian on Australia’s pioneering cartoonist Political cartoonists draw characters and events. They live off the […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 dismantling the you stand on the edge of something suddenly spac- ious as the ev- ening begins to blur, begins […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 What Spain Was Strained and dry, Spain was a diurnal drum of dull sound, smooth, open country, the eagles’ nests, […]
OVERLAND 188 spring 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-5-2published 20 September 2007 Return to the Convincing Ground We stripped each other bare, helpless as beached whales on the convincing ground, stranded between the […]
OVERLAND 194 autumn 2009 ISBN 978-0-9805346-1-0 published 22 March 2009 Ellis on Rudd, Connell on crisis, the year ahead in publishing, the end of the neoliberal self and much, much […]
OVERLAND 192 spring 2008 ISBN 978-0-9775171-9-0 published 31 August 2008 Peter Craven versus Ken Gelder, music in the desert, boxing in NYC, the return of terrorism in literature, Christina Stead […]
winter 2008 The meaning of the Rudd revolution, the history of short histories, why kids hate Australia’s past and what happens to superheroes in the mainstream. OVERLAND 191 ISBN 978-0-9775171-8-3 […]
OVERLAND 190 ISBN 978-0-9775171-8-3 autumn 2008 published 19 March 2008 Oz lit for and against the market, the peril and promise of electronic publishing, John Howard as poet, Hamilton contra […]
