Overland literary journal

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 Sparrow -Editorial

Essays

Germaine Greer – Waiting in vain
John Martinkus – Things fall apart
Clare Wright – A lover and a fighter
Andrew Macrae – Alternative worlds
Lihong Su – Wong Da-niang
Myke Bartlett – The sounds of silence
Hugo Race – Four scenes with Mario Merola
Subhash Jaireth – Waiting for Stalin
Laurie Hergenhan – Behind the scenes with Xavier Herbert
Susan Lever – Empty celebration?
Ken Gelder – Response

Focus: Writers Against Climate Change

David Spratt – Unstoppable fury
Sharon Beder – Industry conjurers
Tim Lambert – An inconvenient blog

Fiction

Miranda Siemienowicz – Penthouse
Kristel Thornell – Cabin fever
Laurie Clancy – Eleven things I know about my brother
Andrew Fuhrmann (online only) – Lucent fruit [PDF]

Reviews

Tali Lavi – Journals
Heather Taylor Johnson – Poetry
Rowan Cahill (online only) – Immigrant tales

Judith Wright Poetry Prize

Sarah-Jane Norman – Eurycleia (iv)
Astrid Lorange – you dropped the tea tray

Poetry

Pam Brown – No worries
Nathan Curnow – Miasmas – Fumigation
Thomas Lee – Plateau
Graham Rowlands – Reading this, reading that
Peter O’Mara – the awful rowing towards God
Briohny Doyle - Without events//