Published in Overland Issue Print Issue 198 Autumn 2010 · Writing / Main Posts instructions mislaid Kerry Gillam instructions mislaid wet is the colour of thinking this is the season of lulls the moon, as if lit from within you hum three notes in your sleep just the sky, unmaking itself melting, a luminous pool on the other side of breathing? moths tying knots around streetlight the hymn book pages sung smooth two gulls, apostrophes cut loose then mist, rain in syllables re-reading the scrawl of cirrus the rhyme, the lick, the reason Kerry Gillam Kerry Gillam is a West Australian poet. More by Kerry Gillam › 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 28 March 20249 April 2024 · Main Posts Why we should value not only lived experience, but also lived expertise Sukhmani Khorana In the wake of this year’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, I want to extend the central idea of El Gibbs’s 2022 essay on 'lived expertise' and argue that in media accounts of racism, analytical expertise and lived experience ought to be valued together and even in the same body. 5 March 2024 · Main Posts Andrew Charlton’s school assignment Alex McKinnon Australia's Pivot to India exists for three reasons: so that when Andrew Charlton is interviewed on the radio or introduced on Q+A, his bio includes the phrase "he has written a book about Indian-Australian relations"; to fend off accusations that he is another Kristina Keneally engaging in electoral colonialism in western Sydney; and to help the Albanese government strengthen economic and military ties with Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party.
