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254 Autumn 2024

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Overland 254 is the first in a set of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. This issue also launches a new design and format by Common Room Editions, inspired by Overland’s trove of radical literature spanning from 1954 to today. Andrew Brooks and Astrid Lorange consider the asymmetrical responses to two events: the wearing of keffiyehs by three cast members during the Sydney Theatre Company’s production of Anton Chekov’s The Seagull, and, on the same day in the US, the shooting of three Palestinian men wearing keffiyehs. Jeff Sparrow uncovers the Sydney Herald’s legacy of Terra Nullius, and Daniel Lopez writes on Marx, Meredith and the festival as an inversion of modern life.

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Dženana Vucic

Dženana Vucic is a Bosnian-Australian writer currently based in Berlin. Her essays and poetry have been published in Australian Poetry Journal, Cordite, Kill Your Darlings, Meanjin, Overland, Sydney Review of Books, and others. She has been awarded a 2022 Marten Bequest and the 2022 Peter Blazey Fellowship to work on an autotheoretical novel. ‘Because a wind blazes’ was shortlisted for the 2023 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize.

Articles by Dženana Vucic:

27 September 20244 October 2024 · Poetry

Because a wind blazes

Dženana Vucic

Because after autumn there are / other autumns, / we learn to eat the wind. / This is what we shall do / with all our anger.

Published in Overland Issue 253 Summer 2023/4 · Essay

In the name of the moon, I’ll destroy capitalism!

Dženana Vucic

On hangover days my boyfriend and I watch Sailor Moon. It’s ultimate hangover viewing. It’s also, we decided one morning, groggy from the night before and running on little more than BBQ chips and gummy bears, an anti-capitalist text.

Published in Overland Issue 245 Summer 2021 · Poetry

girl

Dženana Vucic

I am watching her lick her blood off the floor and I am thinking: it is a marvel that the nose can lose so much and remain intact I am thinking: what is a fist a shoe a foot a book what is a belt a wooden spoon a frying pan if not a kind of missile.

Published in Overland Issue 243 Winter 2021 · Memoir

Feature | A teleology of folding, and of dying

Dženana Vucic

For years, nobody called me by my name. In Brisbane, I was jen; in Melbourne people called me ana. It was a neat split, my name folded into a recognisable shape, the unnecessary syllables and foreign letters turned in against themselves and shushed. It is a recent thing to have claimed the full breadth of myself.

Published in Overland Issue Poetry in Lockdown · Poetry

500 words towards feeling, or: all my poems become war poems

Dženana Vucic

i write notes in my phone and hope to be profound. i have examples. you see, i am the kind of girl that makes love to the subjunctive. i am not proud of this per se but i like to wear my wounds. i have better wounds than this but i want to be mundane.

7 October 20205 November 2020 · Reviews

Metonyms for home

Dženana Vucic

It is tempting to read New Metonyms as first and foremost an attempt to cast Bosnia in a new light, to make over its image. And yes, New Metonyms is an art book immaculately designed to offer the world a new, more optimistic conception of Bosnia. But through this, it is also the story of diaspora, of homecoming, of the complicated relationships we hold with our past, and of the refugee’s need to prove that there is more to us than hurting. It is a work of art, of sevdah and of hope.

3 June 20202 July 2020 · Reviews

Eight readings of In the Dream House

Dženana Vucic

Machado is building, fragment by fragment, another house. She is creating a context for abused queer people to locate themselves and shifting authority away from the palatial archive of heterosexual, male-on-female physical abuse to a place with room for the queer and the nuanced.