Published 4 September 20094 September 2009 · Main Posts get thee to a nunnery! Overland Overloaded Another poet to watch during the Overload Pub Crawl on Friday September 4th is Queenslander Graham Nunn: chair of Queensland Poetry Festival, founder of Small Change Press and organiser of Speed Poets, Brisbane’s longest running poetry event. Nunn has four poetry collections hanging off his poetry heavyweight belt, including the most recent Ruined Man (2007), and his blog Another Lost Shark is a fertile breeding ground where writers gather to share their thoughts on all things literary. Graham’s just released his first spoken word CD, The Stillest Hour, and will be performing at Overload’s pub crawl at Blue Velvet, the last venue of the evening, accompanied by local Queensland ‘Rock Pig”, Sheish Money. If you’re too far gone to appreciate this poetry giant by then, you can catch his set with Sheish Money at Trades Hall on Saturday (5 September) for Poetic Riffs. When the Overland Overloaded team chatted to Graham Nunn, talk turned to eerie music and orion: Who are you? Another lost shark. No, who are you, really? A fisherman, navigating this life by a constellation of words. What are you doing at the Overload Poetry Festival? Took a right turn at Orion and … No, what are you really doing at the Overload Poetry Festival? Following poetry’s strange music. Poetry. Why? Because it’s like holding a bag of snakes. Are you crazy? Well, poetry must surely make a man a poet against his better judgement. Plug your events. On Friday night Sheish Money and I will provide your poetry night cap, raising the curtain at Blue Velvet, then as Saturday unfolds I will take a walk through Half-Hour Country and help launch the literary ship captained by one of Melbourne’s favourite sons Maurice McNamara, before rejoining poetic riff generator, Sheish Money for a set at the Bella Union Trades Hall. Plug them some more. Together Sheish and I have been described as poetry’s answer to the ocean’s call. These will be our first Melbourne shows together, and excitingly we will be debuting tracks from our new CD, The Stillest Hour. Break it down… Poetic Riffs…come along, listen, it will make your mind newer. Overland Overloaded More by Overland Overloaded › 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 28 March 202428 March 2024 · Main Posts Why we should value not only lived experience, but also lived expertise Sukhmani Khorana In the wake of this year’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, I want to extend the central idea of El Gibbs’s 2022 essay on 'lived expertise' and argue that in media accounts of racism, analytical expertise and lived experience ought to be valued together and even in the same body. First published in Overland Issue 228 5 March 2024 · Main Posts Andrew Charlton’s school assignment Alex McKinnon Australia's Pivot to India exists for three reasons: so that when Andrew Charlton is interviewed on the radio or introduced on Q+A, his bio includes the phrase "he has written a book about Indian-Australian relations"; to fend off accusations that he is another Kristina Keneally engaging in electoral colonialism in western Sydney; and to help the Albanese government strengthen economic and military ties with Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party.