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253 Summer 2023/4

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Dženana Vucic on the subtle and not-so-subtle Marxist symbolism in Sailor Moon, John Docker, a "non-theatre person" by his own admission on The New Theatre, Sarah Schwartz on prison healthcare as punishment and the killing of Veronica Nelson, a poignant short story on memory and displacement from Nasrin Mahoutchi-Hosaini, Jeanine Leane's prize-winning poem, "Water under the bridge", and more.

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Emma Simington

Emma Simington is a poet living on unceded Yugambeh country. Her words can be found between the pages of The Moth Magazine and Australian Poetry. She has shortlisted for the Helen Ann Bell Poetry Bequest Award and the Thomas Shapcott Prize. Emma loves women, coffee and lemon pepper tuna. It is proud to be neurodivergent and transgender.

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Published in Overland Issue 252 Spring 2023 · Poetry

Stitch

Emma Simington

Night rains chafing through flyscreens, the dog gymnastic with love and all the things I said on the way to bed about helicopter doctors.

Published in Overland Issue 252 Spring 2023 · Poetry

I live in my hometown (not a hundred metres from where)

Emma Simington

A flower called SELFHEAL, in Latin begins GROSSE, meaning course. All afternoons: cross-legged, elbows crushing, blood cut off from that point down.