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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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Josie/Jocelyn Suzanne

Josie/Jocelyn Suzanne is a freelance editor/writer/programmer. Her work has appeared in Cordite, Southerly and Rabbit Journal 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 Next Chapter fellowship recipients. She is a genderqueer trans femme and lives on unceded Wurundjeri land in Naarm.

Articles by Josie/Jocelyn Suzanne:

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