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256 Spring 2024

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Overland 256 is the third issue in a suite of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. Inside its pages you'll find: Daniel Browning on the politics of memory, Antonia Pont on impatience, Sarah Wehbe on Palestinian fury and joy, and a special editorial by our departing poetry editor Toby Fitch. There's also new short fiction from Rowan MacDonald, Bethany Lalor and Amalia Stone, and new poetry from Josie Suzanne, Tim Loveday, Lulu Houdini and more.

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Chris Armstrong

Chris Armstrong is a writer of poetry, fiction and nonfiction with a degree in journalism and a masters in Creative Writing from the University of Wollongong. Chris currently lives on the road and in the weather gathering silage for future poems.

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Exile: second place, Judith Wright Poetry Prize

Chris Armstrong

In the beginning I carried fireflies for fuel, used a walking stick borrowed from the first blue gum and stuffed my pockets with scribbly bark;