Published in Overland Issue 209 Summer 2012 · Uncategorized Issue 209 Editorial team Contents Regulars Jeff Sparrow − Editorial Alison Croggon Features Nina Power The pessimism of time The paradoxes facing the Left Everett True Me and Pussy Riot Riot Grrl, Russia and the future of music Fiona Capp Salinger’s toilet The culture of confession Elizabeth O’Shea ‘You can’t dream’ Asylum seekers in indefinite detention Sophie Cunningham Descended upon by looters Darwin, theft and Cyclone Tracy David Carlin Scenes from a radical theatre Red Shed Company Rjurik Davidson Political writers in a neoliberal age A way forward for progressive writing Zoë Rodriguez and Ben Eltham Conditions for creativity A debate Maria O’Dwyer Balancing the books Early career writers and financial survival Lisa Farrance Living the life within The benefits of sport Giovanni Tiso Streets of wherever Spy films, globalisation and the meaning of place Isabelle Skaburskis Overlooking tragedy The discourse of human trafficking Short Story Prize Jennifer Mills – Judges’ report Tara Cartland – Frank O’Hara’s Animals John Turner – Killing Floor Melissa Fagan – The day the world stayed the same Poetry Claire Nashar – Cento Michael Farrell – Making Love (to a man) Fiona Wright – Obit Paul Chicharo – Glazed Peyote Crème Brûlée Maria Takolander – Winter war Jal Nicholl – Types Corey Wakeling – The Ear Especially Marty Hiatt – transit of venus Berndt Sellheim – Recrossing the Styx John Kinsella – Pillage 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 10 April 202610 April 2026 · open letter Open letter: RMIT staff and students oppose disciplinary action against Gemma Seymour over video opposing links to weapons ties RMIT University Staff and Students Freedom of speech and expression is absolutely vital in academic institutions. Students who engage in activism should not be punished for doing so, and discipline procedures are not there to be abused as a tool of intimidation. We call for the disciplinary process against Gemma to cease immediately. 9 April 202610 April 2026 · CoPower Against the will to engineer: Richard King’s Brave New Wild Ben Brooker The response demanded of us in the twenty-first century must operate at the level of metaphysics as well as the material, addressing our underlying assumptions about the instrumentalisation of nature and what constitutes a meaningful life in the face of technology’s relentless advance. To neglect that deeper terrain is to concede, in advance, the very ground on which our resistance to the machine must stand.
