Published in Overland Issue 217 Summer 2014 · Uncategorized Issue 217 Editorial team REGULARS Jeff Sparrow – Editorial Alison Croggon Mel Campbell Stephen Wright Giovanni Tiso Contributors FEATURES Khalid Warsame The authentic writer self CAL–Connections essay series Christopher Scanlon Happiness™ The dark side of positive psychology Jennifer Down The end Overcoming grief Kirsten Tranter Go, little book On being reviewed Tony McKenna The politics of deduction The secret of Sherlock Holmes Michael Brull A tale of two settler colonies Australia and Israel compared SAFDAR AHMED The Refugee Art Project Drawing behind the wire John McLaren Bias Australian? Revisiting Overland’s early decades FICTION prizes Jennifer Mills VU prize judges’ report Paddy O’Reilly Story Wine prize judges’ report FICTION Madelaine Lucas Dog story Michelle Wright Late change Kyra Giorgi The circle and the equator Leah Swann That inward eye Ali Alizadeh Samira was a terrorist POETRY John KInsella Emily Stewart Tim Thorne Beth Spencer Ben Walter Phillip Hall Nathan Curnow Brendan McDougall Mark O’Flynn Dusk Dundler Cassandra Atherton Martin Kovan ILLUSTRATIONS Léuli Eshraghi Lily Mae Martin Fikaris Mahla Karimiyan Sam Wallman Merv Heers Madina sayar Anton Pulvirenti Alwy fadhel COVER ART Richard Lewer 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 28 April 202628 April 2026 · History Red Hunter: inspiration from history for an eco-socialist movement Tim Briedis There is an incredible history of worker radicalism in the Hunter Valley region. Workers and communists took on governments, police, banks and bosses, unionised whole industries from scratch, and formed militant Labour Defence Armies of hundreds. While these are not specifically environmentalist actions, there is much to take inspiration from in this history of defiance and rebellion. It is a story of class struggle, collective action and combativeness. 24 April 202624 April 2026 · Friday Poetry A slam dunk publication Michael Farrell Australians said, landed among manatees, did useful, / neatnesses, knitted, pleasingly. Spared liaisons, amassed, / mortal dangers, unforeseen, nor kids, prayed aloud.
