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.
Janet Galbraith is a writer and poet living in the unceded lands of the Dja Dja Wurrung. She is founder of Writing Through Fences, an online project that collaborates with artists and writers incarcerated in immigration detention. Her work is published in poetry and academic journals and newspapers. Janet's collection of poetry ‘re-membering’ was published by Walleah Press in 2013.
