Published 15 September 200915 September 2009 · Main Posts haiku chain Overland Overloaded At the beginning of Overland Overloaded, we sent out a call for haiku written about Melbourne poets. 2007 Australian National Poetry Slam winner Marc Testart responded with gusto. Here are his efforts, accompanied by the photographs from the wonderful Michael Reynolds, who went home on Sunday night cradling an Overload award for his utterly outstanding contribution to Melbourne poetry. Please add to the comments section your own haiku about an Overload poet. Mozart chews up Joyce And spits out Patpong nightmare; Santo Cazzati Black keys on white ones Tap O’Sullivan’s strings, a Heartbreak minstrel sings… Listen to her fire! Continental shifting sands Her black heart; Clarke burns… Stardust lover left; So Whelan rode in rusty; Tear-drops fell misty… Lemon cupped his hands For rising dawn’s reflection; A beatbox maestro… Behold Smart by name! Dressed in paradox, babbling A loose straight-jacket… Humble mountain spews Comic strudel belly laugh Pobjie; murmur; bleak… Overland Overloaded More by Overland Overloaded › 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.