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251 Winter 2023

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Dan Hogan

Dan Hogan (they/them) is a writer and editor from San Remo, NSW (Awabakal and Worimi Country). They currently live and work on Dharug and Gadigal Country (Sydney). Dan's debut book of poetry, Secret Third Thing, was released by Cordite in 2023. Dan’s work has been recognised by the Val Vallis Award, Judith Wright Poetry Prize, and XYZ Prize, among others. In their spare time, Dan runs small DIY publisher Subbed In. More of their work can be found at: http://www.2dan2hogan.com/

Articles by Dan Hogan:

10 August 202322 August 2023 · Housing

Where is the rent ceiling? Housing injustice and the oversupply of landlords

Dan Hogan

Property values and rents increase when homelessness and housing precarity increase, and they keep going up, exposing the full moral and political decrepitude of the current system, leading one to think: where is the ceiling? What is at the end of the trajectory we are currently on?

19 May 202323 May 2023 · Friday Features

Long Furby memory hole

Dan Hogan

The year is 1998 and a spectre is haunting capitalism from ages six and up—the spectre of virtual and robotic kin. All the powers of the capitalist class have entered an unholy alliance to exploit this spectre: Tyco, Hasbro, and Mattel, or: Tickle Me Elmo, Furby, and Tamagotchi.

Published in Overland Issue 248 Spring 2022 · Fiction

Fiction | Aduantas refuses after Foiseach dies

Dan Hogan

If you saw me munging on a hypertrophied human arm in the wee hours behind a sand dune, no you didn’t. The itch is hereditary. If you like this, you might also like the headache from eating ice cream too fast. What of the muted sun inherited? The hour dispenses its smallest trifles to its biggest minutes. The troubles accumulate. Bin night eve. Thursday. Late night shopping. The night is but a kitten. Meow. See also: meow. A collision in kahoots.

1 February 20233 February 2023 · Poetry

This is where the rat bastard poem comes in

Dan Hogan

Rats will be found wherever nonsense presented as sense becomes the authority. Such is the cornerstone of anything organised along lines of capital: bureaucracies, workplace hierarchies, real estate, aspiration culture, institutions, ruling class artifice, governments, etcetera. Wherever there is capital there are rats—hoarding creatures, capital’s henchmen.

26 August 20226 September 2022 · Friday Features

Barbaric struts and cosmic indigestion in Jordan Peele’s Nope

Dan Hogan

In that moment the audience and Emerald are each abolitionists, and in that moment at the Blacktown drive-in where I witnessed Nope, everyone in that carpark, however briefly, behind their tinted car windows, desired the absence of police, for the police to fuck right off, and in the infinite violent possibilities invoked by Peele, we all wanted to see the police, the dutiful henchmen of capital that they are, gone for good.

14 February 202221 March 2022 · LGBTIQ

The privatisation of hate

Dan Hogan

It is abhorrent and morally indefensible for any government to suggest transphobia is an acceptable practice if you’re rich enough to subject your kids to an educational environment that actively incites prejudice against trans and non-binary people.

Published in Overland Issue 244 Spring 2021 ·

Can't cant

Dan Hogan

Suck eggs. Time is flies and flies come from nowhere. Mandi deek baxt. Which, when translated dribbles from the epoch's gob. There is a hole near this poor excuse for a sundial. Give fugitivity a chance. Atchin trans incarcerated in dew drops.

6 December 202114 February 2022 · Education

Why we are going on strike

Dan Hogan

The NSW government set the conditions for the slowly spreading recruitment poverty in its own public education system back in 2011, when it became the first state or territory to impose an austerity measure in the form of a wages cap of 2.5 per cent on all public sector employees (including teachers and nurses). This remarkable act of economic vandalism has overseen a year-on-year decline in teacher wages in relation to inflation and the cost of living.

Published in Overland Issue 238 Autumn 2020 · Poetry

No alarms

Dan Hogan

Give the brigalows time to impersonate metal. Fold the final reminders like bed sheets. Ignore the echoes. Are you revolted the right way? Mosquito into the tidiest corruptions. Zap. Soak the stains. Ear against the wall, diagnose water hammer.