Published in Overland Issue 215 Winter 2014 · Uncategorized Land Mountain: winner of the Nakata Brophy Prize Jessica Hart The environment we create Is a ladle of particulates, A spoon feeding us A measureless enclave. What is a place If not a placement of shapes, Loops of forms, down, around … Wood, metal, words, sound? A seagull knows no hate, Or human thought, And knows no better Than what it’s learning. Sea floods, mazes of waves, Evening candles burning. Jessica Hart Jessica Hart is the winner of the Nakata Brophy Short Fiction and Poetry Prize for Young Indigenous Writers. More by Jessica Hart › 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 18 May 202618 May 2026 · Militarisation Sacrificed for the Pentagon: on Australia’s “security” crisis Gwenaël Velge The connection between the Jarrah Forest, the submarine base, and the data centres is not metaphorical. It is the three pillars of AUKUS, made material in a single city. Pillar III strips the forest to supply aluminium and gallium to the other two pillars, gutting environmental and water security. 15 May 2026 · Friday Fiction The structure Dominic Carew We made it to the park by eight. The winter sun was filtering through the far trees in a wan, lemon trickle, the thin clouds sheets of white. The cool sky a rubbed-at blue. The grass squelched beneath our feet and elsewhere, thinned from wear, the earth stretched grassless and muddy and, in some parts, released a thick mist.
