In this highly anticipated new issue, we encounter brilliant examples of what writing can do in a hypernormal time – whether that's Benjamin Gready on the absurdity of fieldwork on land under active occupation or Zahid Gamieldien's short story about a dancing rat who finds itself enmeshed in systems too shadowy to be true. But, as with the emotional cycles of resistance, hope and snark are features too. Dan Hogan considers the lawn as a class obsession, and π.ο. asks a question: why people hate poetry? We also read about a rakhasa family who passes on wisdom to their young kin, a story by Shefali Mathew. And you’ll find new poetry by Eli McLean, Fiona Hile and Sol Chan, among others, as well as a comic by Safdar Ahmed, plus heaps more. Co-editors Evelyn Araluen and Jonathan Dunk write in the editorial, "Writing always matters, but it matters most directly in the face of this kind of thuggish assault on language, our first and last commons. We can’t let the bastards have it.”
OVERLAND 194 autumn 2009 ISBN 978-0-9805346-1-0 published 22 March 2009
OVERLAND 192spring 2008 ISBN 978-0-9775171-9-0 published 31 August 2008
OVERLAND 191 winter 2008 ISBN 978-0-9775171-8-3published 23 May 2008
OVERLAND 188 spring 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-5-2published 20 September 2007
OVERLAND 192 spring 2008 ISBN 978-0-9775171-9-0 published 31 August 2008 coming clean reasons come in packets there being ten reasons for something & five reasons for its opposite six reasons […]
OVERLAND 192 spring 2008 ISBN 978-0-9775171-9-0 published 31 August 2008 Let’s Get Lost In a city of cameras and anonymous tips you must watch the print-outs. There are toxins and […]
OVERLAND 191 ISBN 978-0-9775171-8-3 winter 2008 published 23 May 2008 A POSTSCRIPT, A PROSPECT Sean Scalmer re-appraises the ‘History Wars’ In 1996, John Howard uncovered a conspiracy. Early in his […]
OVERLAND 191 ISBN 978-0-9775171-8-3 winter 2008 published 23 May 2008 cold logistics it’s not unlike shuffling through a curtained-printery, grain-fed cooks scrabbling the grounds, nostradamus glancing at you through a […]
OVERLAND 191 ISBN 978-0-9775171-8-3 winter 2008 published 23 May 2008 Purgatory A glance at Purgatory won’t separate a stone into its parts – heart, lungs, spleen … For that you’ll […]
OVERLAND 191 ISBN 978-0-9775171-8-3 winter 2008 published 23 May 2008 On a glacier with Mr Grainger I found this photograph of you on your honeymoon dressed smartly as the Wanderer […]
OVERLAND 195 winter 2009 ISBN 978-0-9805346-2-7 published 21 May 2009 EDITORIAL For a long time I’ve believed that the leviathan of capitalism is eating himself up, chewing on his own […]
OVERLAND 191 ISBN 978-0-9775171-8-3 winter 2008 published 23 May 2008 ‘Girl, Unfamiliar Girl, I love you, I love you’ Girl, unfamiliar girl, I love you, I love you Loving you […]
WEB CONTENT ONLY published 12 November 2008 ‘Ours is in colour’: The New Left of the sixties, forty years on Raewyn Connell on 1968 and all that. What was the […]
OVERLAND 191 ISBN 978-0-9775171-8-3 winter 2008 published 23 May 2008 THE KEVIN07 SUMMER READING SPECIALS Tom Clark Margot Saville: The Battle for Bennelong (Melbourne University Publishing, ISBN 9780522854428, $24.95) Mungo […]
OVERLAND 190 autumn 2008 ISBN 978-0-9775171-7-6 published 19 March 2008 SKIPPING David Carlin on silence and family life I am here but I am not here. I am a baby, […]
OVERLAND 194 autumn 2009 ISBN 978-0-9805346-1-0 published 22 March 2009 Valentine Riding the wave of your excavated happiness — feels like machine pleasure, gear to gear not […]
OVERLAND 194 autumn 2009 ISBN 978-0-9805346-1-0 published 22 March 2009 Veer ‘To use the word loosely’ TO USE the word loosely; an underlying reason for making the; […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 A SOCIABLE PARADISE Kevin Foster considers the quest for an authentic Australia Between May and October 1851, the Great Exhibition […]
OVERLAND 194 autumn 2009 ISBN 978-0-9805346-1-0 published 22 March 2009 Discoveries Made Collecting Botanic Samples My mind aslant with your haunting they said that you’d been thrown […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 “THIS FASCIST MOB” Shane Cahill examines the wartime investigation into Japanese militarism and the Institute of Public Affairs “Fascism rears […]
OVERLAND 194 autumn 2009 ISBN 978-0-9805346-1-0 published 22 March 2009 The Pandanus Visible Interminable doubt ’s like the fingers of a pandanus palm, sprayed out. On the […]
OVERLAND 194 autumn 2009 ISBN 978-0-9805346-1-0 published 22 March 2009 Sarasvati’s Scribe I came in search of other gods: the Vedic deities, the Mahadevis. I found only […]
OVERLAND 194 autumn 2009 ISBN 978-0-9805346-1-0 published 22 March 2009 northern line (the blue one) false start then shut the gate. as fig roots ripple & fissure […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 LOOKING OUT AT THE LIGHTS: NEW POETRY Kerry Leves Laurie Duggan: The Passenger (UQP, ISBN 070223555, $23.95) The Passenger is […]
OVERLAND 199 winter 2010 ISBN 978-0-9805346-6-5 published 31 May 2010 The pirate code Emmett Stinson on copyright, books and music Right now publishers are abuzz with discussions of ‘book futures’ […]
OVERLAND 195 winter 2009 ISBN 978-0-9805346-2-7 published 21 May 2009 Things Fall Apart John Martinkus on Australia’s Afghan War In September 2005, it seemed from afar that things were going […]
OVERLAND 188 spring 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-5-2published 20 September 2007 Years ago I lived – not quite legally – in a studio in St Kilda’s landmark George Hotel. I owned an […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 Travelling Types 1 The boy reading On the Road at the railway station & the boy sneering at him, having […]
OVERLAND 195 winter 2009 ISBN 978-0-9805346-2-7 published 21 May 2009 The Sounds of Silence Myke Bartlett on the disappearance of the rock critic The first job I ever took in […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 Shackled He had a choice but chose to look away we had a choice but chose to look away fear […]
OVERLAND 195 winter 2009 ISBN 978-0-9805346-2-7 published 21 May 2009 Four Scenes with Mario Merola Hugo Race in Sicily 1 Palermo 1999 A breakneck sirocco is blowing through the Vucciria, […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 Elegy For in memoriam, Dave McComb Concurrent, we fill the city. Without, the air is too full though we break […]
OVERLAND 195 winter 2009 ISBN 978-0-9805346-2-7 published 21 May 2009 Waiting for Stalin Subhash Jaireth on pain, memory and the body In May 2005, Russia celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 Neath Colliery: a found poem Years later in the 1960’s [sic], the by then huge dump of chitter, shale, pit […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 Culture and Its Terrors Similes, nature analogies, never so apt to term the pitfalls, assaults upon the soul’s integrity. Imagine […]
OVERLAND 194 autumn 2009 ISBN 978-0-9805346-1-0 published 22 March 2009 ALL THAT IS SOLID MELTS INTO AIR Raewyn Connell looks at economic crises and the Left Lessons of history The […]
OVERLAND 194 autumn 2009 ISBN 978-0-9805346-1-0 published 22 March 2009 EXTRA TIME Graham’s house gets dark early. Thick trees shade its western edge. They are the neighbour’s trees, but they […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 dismantling the you stand on the edge of something suddenly spac- ious as the ev- ening begins to blur, begins […]
OVERLAND 195 winter 2009 ISBN 978-0-9805346-2-7 published 21 May 2009 No worries les nouilles ne sont pas toutes dans la soupe not all the noodles are in the soup (Québecois […]
OVERLAND 195 winter 2009 ISBN 978-0-9805346-2-7 published 21 May 2009 Fumigation (Quarantine Station) fumigated like our mail crammed into vapour baths the chamber is shut, we open our mouths, grateful […]
OVERLAND 194 autumn 2009 ISBN 978-0-9805346-1-0 published 22 March 2009 CAUGHT IN THE MELEE WE LOOK FOR SIGNALS: NEW POETRY Kerry Leves Ernest Antony: The Hungry Mile and Other Poems […]
OVERLAND 194 autumn 2009 ISBN 978-0-9805346-1-0 published 22 March 2009 Editorial As William Burroughs might say, this financial crisis has delivered us our naked lunch: that frozen moment when suddenly […]
OVERLAND 194 autumn 2009 ISBN 978-0-9805346-1-0 published 22 March 2009 RED STEAD? Laurie Hergenhan responds to Michael Ackland Michael Ackland’s essay in Overland 192, ‘Realigning Christina Stead’, was useful in […]
