Published 16 November 202023 November 2020 · Main Posts Subscribe to help us continue a legacy that began 66 years ago Editorial team To work as poetry editor for Overland is an honour and a privilege, and the most rewarding work I’ve ever done. For decades, Overland has been one of the only Australian publications in which you are guaranteed to read poetry that will evince radical politics and aesthetics, and which will challenge your conception of art and the world. Having said that … If I was to not be working for Overland, I would still subscribe. If I was not a practicing poet, writer, critic, I would still subscribe. Even if I felt I didn’t need some guidance on the nuances of racial politics, queer politics, gender politics, international affairs, neocolonialism, Aboriginal rights, the labour struggle, climate change et al., I would still subscribe to Overland. Even if I hated the anaphoric propaganda of this very appeal to subscribe to Overland, I would still subscribe. 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