Published in Overland Issue 224 Spring 2016 · Uncategorized Issue 224 Editorial team REGULARS Editorial – Jacinda Woodhead Natalie Harkin Alison Croggon Mel Campbell Correspondence Contributors FEATURES Tim Robertson Inside the sweatshop of the world Labouring in China Ben Eltham Out of touch Politicians and their salaries Rachel Hennessy Engaged and enraged Why writers write Alice Grundy For what it’s worth Books: do they cost too much? Giovanni Tiso You can’t have your revolution Who owns the internet? Richard Seymour Jeremy and the jeremiads Dissecting Corbynphobia Gerhard Hoffstaedter The limits of compassion Speaking with refugees in Malaysia Alex Griffin Just violations Using and abusing Manus Island fiction Jennifer Mills, Alison Whan, Jacinda Woodhead 2016 VU Short Story Prize report julia tulloh harper First place: Broad hatchet AS Runner-up: The acorn of sadness Ben Walter Runner-up: All hollows POETRY Zoë Barnard ImpulsE Stranger, Grandfather 82 John Kinsella The Tenets or Tenants of Sweeney A J Carruthers Axis 49: CARD 84 Michael Farrell Solve a problem and it grows two heads Holiday pattern Catherine Vidler Chaingrass Untitled liam ferney Greenslopes in March Caitlin Maling Gods of my youth artwork JACOB ROLFE Guest artist issue 224: cover, illustrations pages 28, 34, 40 brent stegeman All other artwork 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 20 December 202420 December 2024 · Reviews Slippery totalities: appendices on oil and politics in Australia and beyond Scott Robinson Kurmelovs writes at this level of confusion and contradiction for an audience whose unspoken but vaguely progressive politics he takes for granted and yet whose assumed knowledge resembles that of an outraged teenager. There should be a young adult genre of political journalism to accommodate books like this. 19 December 202419 December 2024 · Reviews Reading JH Prynne aloud: Poems 2016-2024 John Kinsella Poems 2016-2024 is a massive, vibrant and immersive collation of JH Prynne’s small press publication across this period. Some would call it a late life creative flourish, a glorious coda, but I don’t see it this way. Rather, this is an accumulation of concerns across a lifetime that have both relied on earlier form work and newly "discovered" expressions of genre that require recasting, resaying, and varying.
