Published in Overland Issue 222 Autumn 2016 · Uncategorized Issue 222 admin REGULARS Editorial – Jacinda Woodhead Vane Lindesay On John McLaren Mel Campbell Natalie Harkin Giovanni Tiso Alison Croggon FEATURES Ben Brooker Production lines of flesh and bone Meat-eating and the left Stephanie Convery Get your hands off my sister Rape and feminist justice Antony Loewenstein After independence South Sudan five years on Maxine Beneba Clarke The current inhabitants of the island A memoir AJ CarrutHErs, lia inCoGnita, saMuEl waGan watson, ElEna GoMEz Four perspectives on race and racism in Australian poetry A discussion Dean Brandum and Andrew Nette Police fictions On the history of crime television FICTION aliCE punG, EllEn van nEErvEn, stEpHaniE ConvEry Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize report laurEn FolEy First place: K-k-k ElizabEtH tan Coca-Cola birds sing sweetest in the morning As In the end, in the head Jo lanGdon What do you tell JaCk latiMorE Where waters meet POETRY Peter MintEr and toby FitCH 2015 Judith Wright Poetry Prize report Ella o’kEEFE First place: alkaway Omar Sakr Second place: Not so wild Jakob ziGuras Third place: Jet lag song nets ART wORk MiCHEllE Farran Brent stEGEMan admin More by admin › 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 7 March 20257 March 2025 · Poetry 3 songs for Charles Darwin John Forbes begins with languor, / the past tense of caress / which, besides flies & heat haze / post stress, / the intense air supplies — no ostrich feather fans / or punkahs needed — just to be at rest. 5 March 20257 March 2025 · Human rights Showing what really matters to us: on Australia’s continuing failure to uphold the UN torture prevention protocol Monique Hurley and Andreea Lachsz So why have there been no — or only limited — moves to implement the bare minimum obligations pursuant to the OPCAT? The answer appears to be a lack of political will and a dangerous disregard for the lives of people detained behind bars.
