Published 1 September 20091 September 2009 · Main Posts aural text overload Maxine Beneba Clarke Radio made the poetry star… and tomorrow (Wed September 2) from midday till 2pm Melbourne time, Aural Text’s Steve Grimwade and Alecia Sometimes will be chatting with Overload Poetry Festival Director James Waller and Melbourne poet and Overland blogger Maxine Clarke about the Overload Poetry Festival, the Overload All-Stars event and the Overland Overloaded blog collaboration. The Overload All-Stars event is on at Northcote Social Club on Wednesday September 9, and will also feature the amazing Ali Cobby Eckermann, the unbeatable wordplay of Geoff Lemon and the soulful poetry of Lewis Scott. Aural Text is on RRR radio: 102.7 on your dial, or you can access streaming information here. Maxine Beneba Clarke Maxine Beneba Clarke is an Australian author and slam poet of Afro- Caribbean descent. Her short fiction collection Foreign Soil won the 2015 ABIA Award for Best Literary Fiction and the 2015 Indie Award for Best Debut Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize. Her memoir, The Hate Race, her poetry collection Carrying the World, and her first children’s book, The Patchwork Bike, will be published by Hachette in late 2016. More by Maxine Beneba Clarke › 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 28 March 20249 April 2024 · Main Posts Why we should value not only lived experience, but also lived expertise Sukhmani Khorana In the wake of this year’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, I want to extend the central idea of El Gibbs’s 2022 essay on 'lived expertise' and argue that in media accounts of racism, analytical expertise and lived experience ought to be valued together and even in the same body. 5 March 2024 · Main Posts Andrew Charlton’s school assignment Alex McKinnon Australia's Pivot to India exists for three reasons: so that when Andrew Charlton is interviewed on the radio or introduced on Q+A, his bio includes the phrase "he has written a book about Indian-Australian relations"; to fend off accusations that he is another Kristina Keneally engaging in electoral colonialism in western Sydney; and to help the Albanese government strengthen economic and military ties with Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party.
