Published in Overland Issue Print Issue 199 Winter 2010 · Writing / Main Posts lyrebird Duncan Hose Ned Kelly as landscape – Sid Nolan’s idea Ned Kelly member of the family Ned Kelly as bully Ned Kelly softy keeper of paycocks. Ned Kelly as ploughshare Rosella can of condensed Ned Kelly as the auld Surfers Paradise of lagoons and shrikes Ned Kelly as a green Ribbon – twenty years in yr. pocket Ned Kelly as Red Kelly in drag If you believe Peter Carey Ned Kelly as the October mow- & old scotch foreskin jokes Ned Kelly as lunatic fringe of desert spring, as Meaghan Morris Leaving Tenterfield in her teens, or Newcastle forever Ned Kelly as bushel of Tasmanian heads Ned Kelly as a Mentone bookie in suede Fletcher Jones Jeans. Ned Kelly as Melton junkie. Ned Kelly as Bon Scott’s Letters to Adelaide & sister Irene Ned Kelly as a TV celebrity’ s dog wading the scum at St Kilda sniffing at the golden band of freeway i’ th’ West Ned Kelly as downtown Melbourne shamrockery :conspiracy of clover, ‘trefoil’, or when you’re German Dreiblattbogen ‘De Tird Oiye’ say Dubliners, meaning pagan punch Ned Kelly as the night-jar, bone-jar little jar of bones we’d worship if we c’ld find it if we c’ld find it. Duncan Hose Duncan Hose is runner-up in the 2009 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets. He is a poet and postgraduate scholar, currently living in Melbourne. More by Duncan Hose › 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 March 20262 April 2026 · Main Posts Final results of the 2025 Judith Wright Poetry Prize Editorial team Established in 2007 and supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize seeks outstanding poetry from new and emerging writers. This year’s judges, Shastra Deo, Harry Reid and […] 20 March 202620 March 2026 · Main Posts Final results of the 2025 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize Editorial team Established in 2007 and supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, the Overland Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize seeks outstanding original short fiction of up to 3000 words themed loosely around the notion […]