Published in Overland Issue 206 Autumn 2012 · Uncategorized My Hounds Corey Wakeling My hounds will never find me, even with the cracks in the tabula rasa. They, after all, have the lyrebird to discover. It will be the Yarra today and for all of tomorrow, though the hawthorn has otherwise captivated my love, though no passage seems to proceed thence. I wasn’t born here and so the Yarra is brown and glossy. The statuary province including Charles George Gordon might bear a basking irrelevance but our hats betray our vagrancy by the Yarra. We sit awhile. The hounds will never find me, my hounds or otherwise, the Yarra yellowing like a similarly withering dandelion overshadowed by the best red gum. She takes pictures of canoes and freshmen, is otherwise captivated by the hawthorn. Princes Bridge outlines the prevailing picture of surveillance and skullcaps, providing the lectern and rostrum to a city proscenium. What emptiness! Still absent. It must be the wigs and the gathered yokes and the black coats the hounds are in thrall of, then. Corey Wakeling Corey Wakeling is a writer, scholar, and translator living in Tokyo. In 2013, he was granted a PhD in English and theatre studies at the University of Melbourne. Corey has lived in Japan since 2015, currently working as an associate professor of English literature at Aoyama Gakuin University. His most recent poetry collection, Uncle of Cats, appears with Cordite in 2024. More by Corey Wakeling › 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 21 February 202521 February 2025 · The university Closing the noose: a dispatch from the front line of decasualisation Matthew Taft Across the board, universities have responded to legislation aimed at rectifying this already grim situation by halting casual hiring, cutting courses, expanding class sizes, and increasing the workloads of permanent staff. This is an unintended consequence of the legislation, yes, but given the nefarious history of the university, from systemic wage theft to bad-faith bargaining, hardly a surprising one. 19 February 2025 · Disability The devaluing of disability support Áine Kelly-Costello and Jonathan Craig Over the past couple of decades, disabled people in much of the Western world have often sought, or agreed to, more individualised funding schemes in order to gain greater “choice and control” over the support we receive. But the autonomy, dignity and flexibility we were promised seems constantly under threat or out of reach, largely because of the perception that allowing us such “luxuries” is too expensive.
