Published in Overland Issue Audio Overland · Writing All creatures feel fear Eleanor Jackson Eleanor Jackson Eleanor Jackson has performed at a range of Australian festivals including the Melbourne Overload Poetry, Queensland Poetry, Melbourne and Brisbane Writers, Woodford Folk and Anywhere Theatre festivals. She is the producer of the Melbourne Poetry Map, a series of poetry walks supported by the City of Melbourne, and poetry editor of Peril magazine. More by Eleanor Jackson › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays 11 December 202411 December 2024 · Writing The trouble Ken Bolton’s poems make for me, specifically, at the moment Linda Marie Walker These poems doom me to my chair and table and computer. I knew it was all downhill from here, at this age, but it’s been confirmed. My mind remains town-size, hemmed in by pine plantations and kanite walls and flat swampy land and hills called “mountains”. 17 July 202417 July 2024 · Writing “What is it that remains of us now”: witnessing the war on Palestine with Suheir Hammad Dashiell Moore The flame of her poetry scorches the states of exceptions that allow individual and state-sponsored violence to continue, unjustified, and unhistoricised. As we engage with her work, we are reminded that "chronic survival" is not merely an act of enduring but a profound declaration of existence.
