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255 Winter 2024

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This issue goes to print on the cusp of a darkening world… Overland 255 is the second issue in a suite of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. In this issue, Samuel J Cox interviews Kim Scott on his works True Country (1993) and Benang (1995) in ‘Writing from the South’. Elsewhere, Juliet Scott interrogates ‘The Australian Media’s problem with Palestine’ and Sam Ryan looks back at Overland and the state of arts funding in Australia from 1973 to 1975. This issue also features poetry from Yeena Kirkbright, DJ Huppatz, Debbie Lim, among others, and short fiction from Lauren Collee, Madeline Byrne and Jordan Smith.

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Francesca Rendle-Short

Francesca Rendle-Short is a novelist, memoirist and essayist. Her latest book is The Near and The Far Vol 2 (Scribe, co-edited with David Carlin). She is the Associate Dean Writing and Publishing at RMIT University.

Articles by Francesca Rendle-Short:

25 July 201926 September 2019 · Poetry

Towards poetic address: Anne Carson slag

Francesca Rendle-Short

I can’t get to sleep. Anne Carson is in my head.

Published in Overland Issue 210 Autumn 2013 · Reading

Field guide to writing a father

Francesca Rendle-Short

Figure 1: My father was a great bird watcher. Whenever we took off to the bush or to the rainforest on a family picnic, my father would hang his binoculars around his neck expectantly.

Published in Overland Issue Print Issue 197 Summer 2009 · Main Posts

My father’s body

Francesca Rendle-Short

I never saw anything so beautiful … you cannot conceive how the Orchids have delighted me. Charles Darwin to Sir JD Hooker, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin and Selected Letters, 1892 Last Sunday I went to church to be with my father, to say goodbye. As I looked in from the vestibule, I could see […]