Overland literary journal

OVERLAND 193
summer 2008
ISBN 978-0-9805346-0-3
published 19 November 2008
Oil, war and the necessity for dissent, why we don’t know anything about the war in Afghanistan, Oodgeroo versus the NT intervention and much more.

Contents

Editorial

Jeff Sparrow - Editorial

Overland Lecture

Antony Loewenstein – The Resource Wars

Features

Kevin Foster – ‘Eyewitness’ in a Slouch Hat
Alexis Wright – A Weapon of Poetry
Michael Winkler – Murderous Exhibitions
Andrew Ramadge – The Last Fanzine
Sandy Jeffs – Death of the Father
Frank Stilwell – Sustaining What?
Tanya Serisier and Mark Pendleton – The Disappearance of Desire
Robert Darby – The Outlook and Morals of an Ancient Greek
Suzanne Jamieson and Tom Bramble – The Tide Turning?
Susan Lever – Criticism and Fiction in Australia

Fiction

Louise Swinn – The Modern Australian Short Stories Tutor
Eva Sallis – Life Sentence
Richard Lawson – A Chink Too Wide

Online Fiction Supplement

Nicola Haywood – Sometimes the Best You Can Do is Just Jump Back In [PDF version]
Jane Price – The Arrangement [PDF version]
Anna Bennetts – Beneath Our Skins [PDF version]
Richard Millar – The Classroom [PDF version]

Poetry

David Prater – Sunbathing
Sarah-Jane Norman – A vanishing city – This is the Hikari Super Express
Aden Rolfe – We Watched the Waves – Cherry Blossom
Joel Scott – Half Life
Ivy Ireland – Textiles Exhibition – High Tea with The Muse
Ted Nielsen – i took the hand of a preacherman – franchisee, revisited
Anwyn Crawford – Interior Life
Kevin Gillam – in a hurried life

Reviews

Tom O’Lincoln – Battles Over the War
Lyndall Ryan – Assimilating Australia
Andrew Markus – The Clubs of White Men
Elizabeth Campbell – Prolific Rhetoric
John Kinsella responds to Elizabeth Campbell – The ‘Lore’ of Diminishing Returns
Brian McFarlane – Groupings and Gropings in Australian Cinema