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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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Marc Barrett

Marc Barrett spends his days writing material for international literacy assessments. His nights, however, are for the stories that matter most to him. Sometimes these stories are written down, sometimes they’re simply lived, and on a good day, both.

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Published in Overland Issue 254 Autumn 2024 · Fiction

Event Horizon

Marc Barrett

I wake this morning with Andy Gibb’s “Thicker than Water” playing a personal broadcast in my head. Fifty-odd years since I last heard the damn thing, and maybe I only ever heard it a couple of times back then anyway, and yet it rings clear and distinguished as a pulsar’s hammering — every note, every corny line. I never even liked the Gibb brothers.