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251 Winter 2023

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Anders Villani

Anders Villani holds an MFA from the University of Michigan's Helen Zell Writers' Program, where he received the Delbanco Prize for poetry. His first book, Aril Wire, was released in 2018 by Five Islands Press. He lives in Melbourne. www.andersvillani.com

Articles by Anders Villani:

Published in Overland Issue 245 Summer 2021 · Poetry

Collecting brown matter in lockdown as the climate warms

Anders Villani

When the rain lets up, we drive around, pulling over here and there to stuff linden leaves in black bags. It’s not a competition to see who can fill theirs fastest, or who can file their nails on the kerb the most fabulously, or whom the escaped

29 January 20219 April 2021 · Friday Poetry

Poetry | Canals

Anders Villani

and the salons remain open and your mother receives her prescription through an open car window and back doors open onto yards and low bone sky and casuals watch months open

Published in Overland Issue 236 Spring 2019 ·

Sick day

Anders Villani

Somewhere between spirit and appetite, a boy untangles teabag strings, lifts

Published in Overland Issue 232 Spring 2018 ·

Strawberry dawn

Anders Villani

The current sluices through her toes, rendering them in duck shit. She picks at a whitehead on her shoulder. She wears a bra with solid black straps, sheer cups – expensive.