27 April 20162 May 2016 Announcement / Events / Poetry Sydney poetry launch: Toby Fitch and Chris Edwards Editorial team Vagabond Double Launch (Sydney) 3.30pm, Saturday 30 April Gleebooks 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe Come celebrate the Sydney Vagabond Double Launch of The Bloomin’ Notions of Other & Beau by Overland poetry editor Toby Fitch and O Sonata by Chris Edwards. The launch is happening at Gleebooks this Saturday (30 April) from 3.30pm, and will include readings by the authors themselves and friends Pam Brown, David Malouf, AJ Carruthers, Elizabeth Allen, Nicolette Stasko and Emily Stewart. Both collections will be on sale at the event. This is a free launch, but bookings preferred. To book. And for those not in Sydney this weekend, perhaps you can make it to the Melbourne launch on 18 June! Editorial team More by Editorial team 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 3 March 20233 March 2023 Poetry Poetry | 2 rat poems by joanne burns joanne burns the courtyard rat squatting on an empire of pizza boxes rainsoaked piles of stewing cardboard flattened packaging from long covid's eager merchandise anything to transcend an unimagined plague rat traps line the walls like doctors' obsolete portmanteaux from a much earlier decade First published in Overland Issue 228 10 February 202322 February 2023 Poetry Poetry | Inflorescence Jo Langdon History or myth—picture tulip bulbs, unburied like onions. An onion is the likeness Hepburn—in Gardens of the world—proffers in the purr & lilt of vowel, halt of consonant; annunciation that lifts ready from memory
