Published in Overland Issue · Uncategorized Editor’s selection Ian Gibbins Ian Gibbins Ian Gibbins has been a neuroscientist and Professor of Anatomy at Flinders University. He is now a widely published poet and electronic musician. His first collection was Urban Biology (Wakefield Press, 2012) and in 2014 he produced The Microscope Project: How Things Work as part of a major art-science collaboration. For more info, see www.iangibbins.com.au More by Ian Gibbins › 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 16 September 2024 · The university The militarised (settler) university and its institutional moves to innocence Heba A Even as the university refuses to name the genocide and continues to intimidate those who grieve and rage against it, its processes create policy fictions that disavow activism and rewrite violent facts on the ground. 13 September 2024 · Friday Fiction Hondachondria Tom Gurn Shortly after graduating from high school, Jack Goolbroom bought his first car, an old red Honda Civic, pocked with dents and dings more numerous than the acne scars spattering his pallid cheekbones. The red paint was sun-damaged, acid-washed to almost-pink on the roof, as if it had suffered third-degree burns in a housefire.
