Published in Overland Issue Audio Overland · Writing All creatures feel fear Eleanor Jackson Eleanor Jackson Eleanor Jackson has performed at a range of Australian festivals including the Melbourne Overload Poetry, Queensland Poetry, Melbourne and Brisbane Writers, Woodford Folk and Anywhere Theatre festivals. She is the producer of the Melbourne Poetry Map, a series of poetry walks supported by the City of Melbourne, and poetry editor of Peril magazine. More by Eleanor Jackson › 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 10 March 202610 March 2026 · Writing The role of the committed writer in an unfree world André Dao No, the committed writer is a movement writer. I mean that the committed writer knows that they know very little, and that the way to remedy that ignorance is through solidarity with people in struggle. 1 1 December 20251 December 2025 · Writing With respect to the poor essay Jonno Revanche Style is now a feature that we surrender to a digital pattern recognition machine, which attempts to replicate our own but often falls short, feeling convincing enough but too superficial in its noticing to get to the heart of human concerns.
