Published in Overland Issue 201 Summer 2010 · Writing / Main Posts Love Poem Anthony Lawrence Loved each other they did, and unconventionally not at all, and times there were for foolishness, undermining the mind of they tellingly, and faith in words them had, and action more than this, and together they were at a loss to gain or explain how going sideways mapped a path to willing away the us and we, their points of strength being wistful and circuitous, and absence too, emotional and even bodily until no sound could touch or re- invent what all of them had, when music was corruption, and books was, and being bookended, they faced in one-on-one counselling strategies certain to end the endings they were to remain, and so they windbreaked or shelterbelted farewells in deep knowledge, and goodbye said goodbye to itself and they were home. Anthony Lawrence Anthony Lawrence most recent book of poems, Bark (UQP, 2008), was short-listed for the Age Poetry Book of the Year award and the Judith Wright Calanthe Award. A verse novella, The Welfare of My Enemy, is forthcoming in 2011 from UQP. He lives in Newcastle. More by Anthony Lawrence › 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.
