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256 Spring 2024

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Overland 256 is the third issue in a suite of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. Inside its pages you'll find: Daniel Browning on the politics of memory, Antonia Pont on impatience, Sarah Wehbe on Palestinian fury and joy, and a special editorial by our departing poetry editor Toby Fitch. There's also new short fiction from Rowan MacDonald, Bethany Lalor and Amalia Stone, and new poetry from Josie Suzanne, Tim Loveday, Lulu Houdini and more.

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Gary Catalano

Gary Catalano (1947–2002) was an Australian poet and art critic. Among his books of poetry are Slow Tennis, The Empire of Grass and, most recently, Collected Prose Poems (Gazebo Books 2021). ‘Water Music’ was published in Overland 87, 1982.

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4 April 20254 April 2025 · Poetry

Water music

Gary Catalano

Even now / its black waters / are tanked ’nd / safely intact. Pour / seeds or syllables / back down that throat / and all you’ll hear / are scattered ping-pings / on an iron roof.