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 5 June 20265 June 2026 · Friday Fiction Hobo portraits: Treadly Tim & the falling star Patrick Holland We crossed the half-buried railway line and the crazy man known as Treadly Tim turned a corner around the van park on Simeon Street and came toward us on his Malvern Star bicycle. 3 June 20263 June 2026 · Reviews The past in the object: Vanessa Berry’s Calendar Courtney Powell In her latest book, Calendar, Vanessa Berry explores the relationships that are formed between people and material culture, both fleeting and sentimental, and how they can come to represent us.
