Published 6 September 2009 · Main Posts live from the dan Overland Overloaded IQ (poet Benjamin Theolonius Sanders), the official Overland Overloaded poet laureate, haiku-ed live from the Dan O’Connell Overload readings late this afternoon, capturing the open mic and feature readings as they unfolded. Poets were excited and in top form. IQ catches first reader Brian rousing the dead, the convener (Melbourne poet) Cam Black relaxing back into the gig, and feature Overload poet, Australian poetry legend Eric Beach commanding an ocean. First Spot Brian is up first reading the dead ones, bringing a dusty mouth green. Convener Cam is plaid-clad eyes a pint of chilled cider. Beach poetry on tap. Wee Sing By the window wee while ago snowy beard song passed by McKelvie. Ballads abound bunched barely under his chin. Sung baritone winter. boom Out of Viki booms chunky-hipped notes, bittersweet meals of hot soul food. building Australia how bookshelves begin filling: chapbooks and CDs bought from poet’s hands. Depth to Spare salty ocean words experience minerals crash from Eric Beach. When your beer applauds jazzy syllables, bubbles old men stay young; play. ©Benjamin Theolonius Sanders (IQ) 5 September 2009 Dan O’Connell Overload Poetry Festival 2009 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 First published in Overland Issue 228 28 March 202428 March 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. First published in Overland Issue 228 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.