Published 18 December 202319 February 2024 · Poetry / Palestine All the angels in the world are heading to Gaza Ali Cobby Eckermann All the angels in the world are heading to Gaza They were alerted by the urgent increases on social media Yes angels know every message posted on the world wide web And all the angels in the world know genocide can be avoided And all the angels are confused why the world is ignoring the fact - What can be avoided must not be allowed All the angels in the world are heading to Gaza They will answer the urgency of millions of prayers The crescendo of prayers has removed all silence There is no clandestineness to this genocide There is no secrecy now; there is no hush All the angels in the world are heading to Gaza They will spread their wings till the tips touch Side by side to cover the entire fence line To pulse angelic energy to the dying children To pulse comfort to the suffering mums and dads All the angels in the world are heading to Gaza Even the devil is there at the entrance Waving the killers in. Image: Mohammed Ibrahim Ali Cobby Eckermann Ali Cobby Eckermann is a Yankunytjatjara poet and artist from South Australia whose work has been published and celebrated around the world. Her poetry collections include little bit long time and the award-winning collection Inside My Mother. Her verse novels are His Father’s Eyes and Ruby Moonlight, which won the inaugural black&write! Indigenous fellowship, the Kenneth Slessor Prize, a Deadly Award and was named the NSW Premier’s Literary Award Book of the Year. In 2013 Ali toured Ireland as Australia’s Poetry Ambassador, and in 2017 she received the Windham-Campbell Prize from Yale University.She describes herself as a dreamer, a gardener, with deep respect for her journey thus far. More by Ali Cobby Eckermann › 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 December 20258 December 2025 · Solidarity The genocide exception: measuring institutional silencing on Palestine in Australia Academics for Palestine, WA and Academics for Palestine, SA Academics for Palestine WA, in partnership with Academics for Palestine SA, launched a quantitative and qualitative survey to measure the frequency and perception of silencing amongst a cohort vocal on Palestine. The results are now out in a new report: A Climate of Fear: An Empirical Report on the Suppression of Speech on Palestine in Australia. 5 December 2025 · The university The profit of distance: how universities exploit Palestinian expertise Hazem Almassry My mother was killed on 5 December 2023 in Khan Younis. An airstrike hit our home around 3 pm. The building collapsed. I learned she was dead while I was in Taiwan, working on research about how political systems function. The irony is so complete it circles back with precision: I was analysing systems of state power at the exact moment one of those systems was destroying my family.
