Published in Overland Issue 206 Autumn 2012 · Uncategorized Issue 206 Editorial team autumn 2012 ISBN 978-0-9871301-3-6 published 19 March 2012 A mysterious death in Melbourne’s west, the European meltdown, the 2011 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize and much more. Contents Regulars Jacinda Woodhead − Editorial Alison Croggon Rjurik Davison Features Michael Green – Between two oceans Death in Footscray Tariro Mavondo – The dangers of a single story CAL Connections: living black in white Australia Jeff Sharlet – The five books of my apocalypse Writing and Occupy Wall Street Mike Beggs – Occupy abundance Are Australians too rich to protest? Richard Seymour – The European meltdown Crisis across the continent Hugo J Race – Blood and chocolate Keeping it together in Brazil Robert Darby – Another other Victorian George Drysdale, a forgotten sex pioneer Benjamin Laird – CEOS, authors and white-collar work Meanland: computers and class struggle Fiction James Bradley – The inconvenient dead SJ Finn – Tractor tractor Paul Dawson – Australian Academic Poetry Prize Peter Minter – 2011 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize Judge’s report Joel Ephraims – rock candy Poetry Toby Fitch – Sonar Kerry Leves – Constant companion Corey Wakeling – My Hounds Fiona Wright – Sunday poem Jessica L Wilkinson – Breathless Mathew Abbott – california | nevada | new mexico Mark Mordue – Mayfield Blues Editorial team More by Editorial team › 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 25 November 202425 November 2024 · Reviews Poetic sustenance: a close reading of Ellen van Neerven’s “Finger Limes” Liliana Mansergh As a poem attuned to form, embodiment, sensory experience and memory, van Neerven’s “Finger Limes” presents an intricate meditation on poetic sustenance and survival. Its riddling currents exemplify how poetry is not sustained along a linear axis but unfolds in eddies and counter currents. 22 November 202422 November 2024 · Fiction A map of underneath Madeleine Rebbechi They had been tangled together like kelp from the age of fourteen: sunburned, electric Meg and her sidekick Ruth the dreamer, up to all manner of sinister things. So said their parents; so their teachers reported when the two girls were found down at the estuary during a school excursion, whispering to something scaly wriggling in the reeds.