Published in Overland Issue 258 2025 · Uncategorized PARALLEL UNIVERSE Ed Southorn Deified by a confederacy of dunces blazing guns in a rollercoaster, the genius of Red Skull is to convince he’s a genius, actually very smart, a very stable genius. On day one, Lex Corp sent a mission to planet G88-9 hunting saliva from the Grendlers, a cure for all known sickness. Flight time: 22 years. Another smartwatch ransom note, not with a bang but a reckoning. Am I seeing two suns? Or Batman’s Flying Eye? Everything foretold in comics came true, except the flip-top head. Ed Southorn Ed Southorn writes on Yuin / Djiringanj land. His poems, an essay and a memoir extract appear in Cordite, Axon, the Liquid Amber Poetry Prize anthology 2024, Blackbox Manifold, the Journal of Wild Culture and elsewhere. His PhD explores contested space. His poetry collection, Pareidolia (2024), is published by Walleah Press. More by Ed Southorn › 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 28 April 202628 April 2026 · History Red Hunter: inspiration from history for an eco-socialist movement Tim Briedis There is an incredible history of worker radicalism in the Hunter Valley region. Workers and communists took on governments, police, banks and bosses, unionised whole industries from scratch, and formed militant Labour Defence Armies of hundreds. While these are not specifically environmentalist actions, there is much to take inspiration from in this history of defiance and rebellion. It is a story of class struggle, collective action and combativeness. 24 April 202624 April 2026 · Friday Poetry A slam dunk publication Michael Farrell Australians said, landed among manatees, did useful, / neatnesses, knitted, pleasingly. Spared liaisons, amassed, / mortal dangers, unforeseen, nor kids, prayed aloud.
