Published in Overland Issue 228 Spring 2017 · Uncategorized A worm in your ear Chris Edwards If advertising pays communication targets its prods and vices. Likewise, a well-designed clientele can often entice potential contracts to web-sighted varicose advising options. To choose from globular recent yearnings, why not retch at lower cost? Many leach their purchase decisions times two, then open up your email. See? An advertisement for wankers or a trammel destination. To buy you there are a number of ways you can pay to approve your research engine. Others devise their business needs to promulgate societal media, or perhaps try bogs or trackie down websites that visit your manly targets. Read the rest of Overland 228 If you enjoyed this poem, buy the issue Or subscribe and receive four outstanding issues for a year Chris Edwards Chris Edwards is a Sydney-based poet whose publications include People of Earth and After Naptime, both from Vagabond Press. More by Chris Edwards › 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 17 January 202517 January 2025 · rape culture Neil Gaiman and the political economy of rape Emmy Rakete The interactions between Gaiman, Palmer, Pavlovich, and the couple’s young child are all outlined in Shapiro’s article. There is, though, another figure in the narrative whom the article does not name. Auckland city itself is a silent participant in the abuse that Pavlovich suffered. Auckland is not just the place where these things happen to have occurred: this is a story about Auckland. 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.