Published 1 November 20138 November 2013 · Writing / Reflection / Culture The Overland podcast: Alison Croggon Eloise Oxer Welcome to the second instalment of the Overland author-interview podcast series, in which we chat with one of our contributing authors about the ideas behind their words, their writing practice and their world. We’ll also listen in as they spoil us with readings of the featured work. This month, we invite you to join Overland editorial intern Eloise Oxer in conversation with award-winning Australian poet, novelist and critic Alison Croggon, as they discuss the innumerable benefits of art and the case for public arts funding. Alison writes prolifically, across many genres, and is one of Australia’s most respected critical voices. Her essay ‘Why Art?’ recently featured in the spring issue of Overland, is at the heart of this month’s author-interview podcast. We hope you enjoy! (Many thanks to Chris Chapple for the music.) Eloise Oxer Eloise Oxer is an actor, editor, writer and rambler and a long-time Overland fiction reader. More by Eloise Oxer › 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 11 December 202411 December 2024 · Writing The trouble Ken Bolton’s poems make for me, specifically, at the moment Linda Marie Walker These poems doom me to my chair and table and computer. I knew it was all downhill from here, at this age, but it’s been confirmed. My mind remains town-size, hemmed in by pine plantations and kanite walls and flat swampy land and hills called “mountains”. 17 July 202417 July 2024 · Writing “What is it that remains of us now”: witnessing the war on Palestine with Suheir Hammad Dashiell Moore The flame of her poetry scorches the states of exceptions that allow individual and state-sponsored violence to continue, unjustified, and unhistoricised. As we engage with her work, we are reminded that "chronic survival" is not merely an act of enduring but a profound declaration of existence.
