Published 12 May 201718 May 2017 · Events / Poetry / Activities Overland poetry at the Emerging Writers’ Festival Editorial team Tell Me Like You Mean It 7.30pm, Monday 19 June 1000 £ Bend, Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne This event is free What does it mean to be an emerging contemporary poet? Overland’s Deputy Editor and poet Sian Vate will join fellow poets Saaro Umar and Elena Gomez for a night of readings hosted by Australian Poetry at this year’s Emerging Writers’ Festival. Check out the rest of the program 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 8 March 20248 March 2024 · Poetry POETRY Gareth Morgan as if a poem were a person, me, i get up in the morning / i buy coffee in a can, and wait / you have to keep calm, “don't get upset” / or it fucks everything up. the bosses who tell me this / are wise but stupid troopers. this is a political poem 16 February 202419 February 2024 · Poetry Two poems from 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem Nam Le But think about the children, super cute children, mute children, with uncommonly big eyes, children with hard eyes, eyes that have seen what no child’s eyes should see, children naked as the day wearing big smiles and no smiles, preternaturally wise, with mooned-out tummies and cleft palates and cataracts, deformities and birth defects ...
