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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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Jason Gray

Jason Gray is the author of prize-winning book, HAUNT (THE KOOLIE), published by Subbed In, 2019, the winner (2012) and judge (2018–2019) of Zine West Word. Published widely, including Liminal anthology Collisions (2020) and Griffith Review (2017). T: @jasongray. I: @connectionrevolution.

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30 June 20234 July 2023 · Poetry

Poetry | GENTRIFYING PARRA

Jason Gray

Factories sulk with sweat and grit Cafes and hairdressers wild with renewed hustle Slick-back and jet-black and conk shaved of sick disarray, and one dark fringe longer and falling without the need to flick it back.