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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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Penelope Leyland

Penelope Layland is a Canberra poet. Her most recent book, Things I’ve thought to tell you since I saw you last, was short-listed for the Kenneth Slessor Prize in the 2019 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.

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Published in Overland Issue 239 Winter 2020 · Poetry

Tempest prognosticator

Penelope Leyland

The storm glass agrees it has been a winter of oddities—big soft flakes at the surface, a tangle of collapsing fractals below.

Published in Overland Issue 239 Winter 2020 · Poetry

Devonian

Penelope Leyland

In the hours of the tide’s chill retreat the bubbler crabs redraw the atlas. Pearls of sand spread and reach in strands the length of the beach, agreeing the coastlines of new continents, tracking minute deltas and dotted bays,