Overland 254 is the first in a set of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. This issue also launches a new design and format by Common Room Editions, inspired by Overland’s trove of radical literature spanning from 1954 to today. Andrew Brooks and Astrid Lorange consider the asymmetrical responses to two events: the wearing of keffiyehs by three cast members during the Sydney Theatre Company’s production of Anton Chekov’s The Seagull, and, on the same day in the US, the shooting of three Palestinian men wearing keffiyehs. Jeff Sparrow uncovers the Sydney Herald’s legacy of Terra Nullius, and Daniel Lopez writes on Marx, Meredith and the festival as an inversion of modern life.
Linda Godfrey: Poet. Writer. Editor. Program Manager of the Wollongong Writers Festival. 2015 to 2018. Curator of Rocket Readings, readings of poetry and an open mic, part of the Sydney Writers Festival and Wollongong Writers Festival, 2007 to 2018. Reader, manuscript assessor, teacher, judge. Fiction and poetry has appeared in journals and anthologies. Will fulfil her ambition to live on the beach at Agia Triada in Crete where the Minoans built a summer palace.
