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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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Josie/Jocelyn Suzanne

Josie/Jocelyn Suzanne is a freelance editor/writer/programmer. Her work has appeared in Cordite, Southerly, Rabbit Journal and Overland, among others. She was shortlisted for the 2022 Val Vallis Award, and was the recipient of the 2021 Harri Jones Memorial Prize, as well as being one of the 2021 Ultimo Prize recipients. She was one of the recipients of the 2021 Next Chapter Fellowships. She is trans-femme/genderqueer, living on unceded Wurundjeri land in Naarm.

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Published in Overland Issue 256 Spring 2024 · Teaser

Coburg//Gnosticism

Josie/Jocelyn Suzanne

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7 November 20247 November 2024 · colonisation

After the pale

Josie/Jocelyn Suzanne

The violence the colony must use to naturalise itself, to vampirise its vitality in acts of dispossession/accumulation, is one that — when it is not converting land into material — must frame violent resistance as a fundamental break in its monopoly over life and death, over the land.

22 April 2024 · Gaming

Game-death in infinite game-worlds: Darkest Dungeon 2

Josie/Jocelyn Suzanne

Death is the ultimate stamp of value. It was invented to sell arcade-like 1 Up repetition to the home market. To read politics in videogames is to learn to read necropolitically, which is why gamers don’t like politics.

Published in Overland Issue 251 Winter 2023 · Poetry

the wasps, O wall-bound housemates

Josie/Jocelyn Suzanne

I know you can hear, I’m talking directly / to the power socket, the transparent plug / each copper wire visible, like a bisection / of brain, pineal gland folded, a queen / around a void, the nest hovering around / them.

31 August 202313 October 2023 · Poetry

Verbing the apocalypse: Alison Croggon’s Rilke

Josie/Jocelyn Suzanne

‘This again?’ and ‘why now? Why not years ago?’ are the two questions raised in each new translation of a non-English piece of Western Canon. There’s an understanding—of course a poetic cycle like the Duino Elegies is incomplete in English, there are endless new readings—and a simultaneous sense of wounded pride/suspicion: what was missing the last time around? What were you concealing from me? What are you concealing now?

Published in Overland Issue 248 Spring 2022 · Poetry

Poetry | Forest fire // Walking with dinosaurs

Josie/Jocelyn Suzanne

It begins for the same reasons: spark, air and ready material, grassless under conifer. You study a wax diorama of the soon-to-be Antarctic jungle, ornithischian dinosaurs—eating a plastic fern—named after Qantas; you’re exhuming the bones of an Airbus A330 beside the Pteranodons,

10 September 202110 October 2021 · Friday Features

Poetry | Losing your hearing

Josie/Jocelyn Suzanne

as in not an event but the unspooling as in not working from definitions a new state to declaim “ok, this is normal now”, but conscious of hollowing, the dark souls of sense data a wasp’s nest growing in the walls

Published in Overland Issue 239 Winter 2020 · Poetry

Hand as whale

Josie/Jocelyn Suzanne

Over a table-surface the lampreys of fingers subsisting on air and nothing. They erupt into sentience as all things fossils admit them as honorary sediment at the seabed and their hands pretend