Published in Overland Issue 209 Summer 2012 · Uncategorized Issue 209 Editorial team Contents Regulars Jeff Sparrow − Editorial Alison Croggon Features Nina Power The pessimism of time The paradoxes facing the Left Everett True Me and Pussy Riot Riot Grrl, Russia and the future of music Fiona Capp Salinger’s toilet The culture of confession Elizabeth O’Shea ‘You can’t dream’ Asylum seekers in indefinite detention Sophie Cunningham Descended upon by looters Darwin, theft and Cyclone Tracy David Carlin Scenes from a radical theatre Red Shed Company Rjurik Davidson Political writers in a neoliberal age A way forward for progressive writing Zoë Rodriguez and Ben Eltham Conditions for creativity A debate Maria O’Dwyer Balancing the books Early career writers and financial survival Lisa Farrance Living the life within The benefits of sport Giovanni Tiso Streets of wherever Spy films, globalisation and the meaning of place Isabelle Skaburskis Overlooking tragedy The discourse of human trafficking Short Story Prize Jennifer Mills – Judges’ report Tara Cartland – Frank O’Hara’s Animals John Turner – Killing Floor Melissa Fagan – The day the world stayed the same Poetry Claire Nashar – Cento Michael Farrell – Making Love (to a man) Fiona Wright – Obit Paul Chicharo – Glazed Peyote Crème Brûlée Maria Takolander – Winter war Jal Nicholl – Types Corey Wakeling – The Ear Especially Marty Hiatt – transit of venus Berndt Sellheim – Recrossing the Styx John Kinsella – Pillage Editorial team More by Editorial team › 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 11 February 202511 February 2025 · Aboriginal Australia Acknowledgements without land Heba A What are land acknowledgements without land back? When you pay your respects to the dead whose descendants remain dispossessed, or recognise the “traditional owners” of the land that you now possess and reap as a gift of your modernity … whose voice is it that you hear? 10 February 202510 February 2025 · open letter Open letter on academic freedom, in solidarity with Randa Abdel-Fattah Scholars against political repression We, the undersigned, write to express our condemnation of the decision by the Education Minister Jason Clare to request the Australian Research Council (ARC) to investigate the Future Fellowship of Macquarie University academic Randa Abdel-Fattah “as a matter of priority”.
