Published in Overland Issue 243 Winter 2021 · Poetry Out of time Angela Gardner You can’t ask a replica of a replica to get in the wrongness, to rise up. I’ve stuck my head in the algorithm unable to find an exit. Look, I’m in the network until it rights itself, I have body armour and a weapon. The day is warming : plume baton tear gas. Ahead of me a bot runs through coin slots of wrecked light, senseless with fright. Read the rest of Overland 243 If you enjoyed this piece, buy the issue Or subscribe and receive four brilliant issues for a year Angela Gardner Angela Gardner’s verse novel The Sorry Tale of the Mignonette, Shearsman, 2021 was a UK National Poetry Day recommendation. Her six poetry collections including Some Sketchy Notes on Matter, Recent Work Press, 2020 shortlisted for the Dorothy Hewett Award and the Thomas Shapcott Prize winning Parts of Speech, UQP, 2007. More by Angela Gardner › 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 5 November 2025 · Poetry Force posture agreement Miroslav Sandev The men of Darwin have all taken their rottweilers / out for a walk at the same time. / For our protection. Like Pine Gap: / all those big white eyes that scan / the darkening horizon. / The eyes stay woke, so that we may sleep. / Or so they say. 1 22 August 202522 August 2025 · Poetry starmight K.A Ren Wyld Ending genocide and apartheid is the story. Palestinian liberation is the story. / Aboriginal rights is the story. Truth, justice, treaties and land back is the story. / Global Indigenous peoples’ solidarity and joy is the story. Kinship is the story.
