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251 Winter 2023

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Declan Fry

Declan Fry is a writer, poet, and essayist. Born on Wongatha country in Kalgoorlie, Declan Fry has written for The Guardian, Saturday Paper, Overland, Australian Book Review, Liminal, Sydney Review of Books, Cordite, Kill Your Darlings, Westerly and elsewhere. His Meanjin essay “Justice for Elijah or a Spiritual Dialogue with Ziggy Ramo, Dancing” received the 2021 Peter Blazey Fellowship. He has been shortlisted for the Judith Wright Poetry Prize and lives on unceded Wurundjeri country with his partner and their cat, Turnip. @_declanfry

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Published in Overland Issue 245 Summer 2021 · Poetry

Wanala sunset

Declan Fry

Spring, seeking the fresh collapse of everything, not least this evening, and the effort of buildings (every cornice and eave) fails to eclipse the vaporising midges, serrated rows of eucalypt trees. Insects sing in full-throated susurrus

20 August 20215 September 2021 · Friday Features

Poetry | The forests died back last year …

Declan Fry

You are now sailing Spaceship Earth. Some of us are preserved in the geological record, the heat of lightning collapsing grains of sand into skeletal tubes.

23 June 202021 July 2020 · Reviews

‘I was the Only Blak Queer in the world’: on Ellen van Neerven’s Throat

Declan Fry

Throat is a collection that crosses boundaries: of gender, genre, culture, history. Throughout the work you catch yourself, half unconscious, half wondering, dazzled and spent and continually recovering. To paraphrase the title of the second part of the collection it is a work that is always approaching, haunt-walking in. You cannot wait to meet it yet feel that it has met you several times already – feisty, haunting, irresistibly tender.

20 May 202022 June 2020 · Capitalism

Capital writes white

Declan Fry

In common with many other artists, writers are one of late capital’s most avidly tricked-out assets: not expected to be motivated by crass material concerns themselves, their output nonetheless provides a handy source of wealth for other industries to profit from: industries of marketing, of publishing, of academia.