Published 9 September 20099 September 2009 · Main Posts small change Overland Overloaded Overload Overloaded’s Benjamin Theolonius Sanders took his haiku reviewing on the road to Dante’s for the launch of Maurice McNamara’s Half Hour Country (Small Change Press, 2009) on Saturday September 5, catching performances by poets Matt Hetherington, Anna Fern, David Stravanger and Graham Nunn. IQ chides the calling of a mobile phone during a poetry reading, laments the physical constraints of the human body and his inability to duplicate himself for the purposes of Overload reviewing, and encounters poet Randall Stephens, whose spoken word CD Tales from an Idiot was launched at Passionate Tongues on Monday evening as part of Overload. Dante’s Bacon Maurice and Anna make vegetarians want to eat Pork with love. Plush notes trickle, form flugelhorn waterfalls, mists, lunar rainbow clouds. Glass break percussion! Sharp squeal*! Volcanic laughter!!! Unflapped — He haikus. Phones Quite Please The reading starts. Jump#%! Mobile alarm vibrations provide O*!*!! cheap thrill! Overlapping Choices Wanting two of me enough to attend each of Overload’s events. Rue ? Without Her Flickering light –shorts. Unscrews in an Aussie’s chest. Randall walks Paris. Birthday Times Too Irma is beaming. Two months…She first-time Grandma Cuddles love poem. Sandy Don Helen casts faithful pebbles beachward cheeky nipper smiles. ©Benjamin Theolonius Sanders 8 September 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 12 May 202512 May 2025 · Main Posts Somebody please just do it Sam Wallman Somebody please just do it 28 March 202528 March 2025 · Prizes Announcing the 2024 Judith Wright Poetry Prize shortlist Editorial team After careful consideration, the judges have selected eight outstanding poems to form this year’s Judith Wright Poetry Prize shortlist.