Published in Overland Issue The 2017 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize · Uncategorized Highly Commended: Tick tock Rachel Bos Watch out We’re coming Out from the edges, the cracks, from under our bridges. Our rage a metallic tang on our tongues Clashing, clanging and loud. We wear our pride like armour, our outrage flung at you like spears. No longer silent, We break free, Bursting through that which have held us Rushing at you, overwhelming in intensity. We won’t be silent and we won’t bow down. Our roar is deafening. It’s time. Image: Matthew Piatt Rachel Bos Rachel Bos is a teacher and writer. More by Rachel Bos › 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 11 December 202411 December 2024 · Writing The trouble Ken Bolton’s poems make for me, specifically, at the moment Linda Marie Walker These poems doom me to my chair and table and computer. I knew it was all downhill from here, at this age, but it’s been confirmed. My mind remains town-size, hemmed in by pine plantations and kanite walls and flat swampy land and hills called “mountains”. 9 December 202411 December 2024 · Militarisation War stories: how weapons corporations create social licence for genocide Wage Peace The weapons industry remains masterful at propagating a number of quite specific false narratives to misdirect attention, not just at arms fairs, but across all their operations. This goes far beyond misrepresentation of police violence on protestors, and cumulatively aims to generate a social license, including for genocide.