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 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.
