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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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Jill Jones

Jill Jones lives and works on unceded Kaurna land. Her latest book is Wild Curious Air, winner of the 2021 Wesley Michel Wright Prize. In 2015 she won the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry for The Beautiful Anxiety. Her work is widely published in Australia, Canada, Ireland, NZ, Singapore, Sweden, UK, and USA and has been translated into a number of languages. She has worked as an academic, arts administrator, journalist, and book editor.

Articles by Jill Jones:

18 August 202322 August 2023 · Poetry

Poetry | It’s changing / now

Jill Jones

Futurity begins now with leftovers sunglasses trying too hard along with cheapskates a kind of pink plastic essence * Destiny stinks! * What if we went crazy in the carpark a scuffle on the grease The green bag is torn beside it, a line of ants working hidden in the glare * What now! The […]

Published in Overland Issue 250 Autumn 2023 · Poetry

Constancies

Jill Jones

They’ve made yoghurt in space / There’s a fish called a chimera / There are too many grudges to hold / Not all luck should be good / Face masks take 450 years to breakdown / Power prices rise as benchmarks crumble

Published in Overland Issue 241 Summer 2020 · Poetry

River: contra/indications

Jill Jones

Even if I see and don’t see the river’s writhing the fish daphnia algae the water the water the swelling of ritalin warfarin methotrexate Even if I bend or don’t bend to the flow ingest bitter tasting wonders as do aquatic insects riparian spiders soaked in memantine codeine fluconazole mianserin

18 December 202015 February 2021 · Poetry

Poetry | Elsewhere here

Jill Jones

What is the colour of the world? The bush flame? And how should I begin? With phantoms like portents a blowtorch on the roadhouse the pity blues dogs don’t let up bragging. In the aftertaste of mourning are bankrupt sermons ‘twit twit twit’

Published in Overland Issue 230 Autumn 2018 ·

Mouth form flower

Jill Jones

Let fault flaw Let the fence fall Let’s flabbergast the goal with tongues Let debacle warp in dawn

Published in Overland Issue 226 Autumn 2017 ·

Judges’ report

Jill Jones and Toby Fitch

This year’s shortlisted poems experimented with modes, moods and discourses to engage with various political and cultural moments. These poems made us return again and again to uncover more within their meanings and structures; to interrogate their ideas, line by line. Each poem had its particular vitality, its seductions, its pull, its hook. We continued to challenge each other about those that stood out and our lists kept changing. Some poems took weeks to emerge from the group. Others faded.

Published in Overland Issue 216 Spring 2014 ·

Wind shadow

Jill Jones

Terra incognita transfers across a plain, a wing blends the graces, tarmacs, macadam, concrete being so concrete, the tar-sick travel.

Published in Overland Issue 204 Spring 2011 · Main Posts

Misinterpretations /or The Dark Grey Outline

Jill Jones

I move through a slanting, footpaths erupting roots through bricks near the mad old bus stop.