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251 Winter 2023

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New fiction, poetry, and essay from literary luminaries such as Daniel Browning, Bill Gammage, Jen Craig, Rico Craig, Luoyang Chen, Jane Downing, and Jo Langdon. Featuring cover art from Liss Fenwick's haunting Humpty Doom series.

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Josie/Jocelyn Suzanne

Josie/Jocelyn Suzanne is a freelance editor/writer/programmer. Their work has appeared in Cordite, Southerly and Rabbit Journal among others. They were shortlisted for the 2022 Val Vallis award, and were the recipient of the 2021 Harri Jones memorial prize, as well as being one of the 2021 Next Chapter fellowship recipients. They are a genderqueer trans femme and live on unceded Wurundjeri land in Naarm.

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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