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.
Ian Gibbins has been a neuroscientist and Professor of Anatomy at Flinders University. He is now a widely published poet and electronic musician. His first collection was Urban Biology (Wakefield Press, 2012) and in 2014 he produced The Microscope Project: How Things Work as part of a major art-science collaboration. For more info, see www.iangibbins.com.au
