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.
Saskia Beudel’s most recent book is A Country in Mind: Memoir with Landscape, which was shortlisted for the Adelaide Festival Literary Awards. She is also the author of the novel Borrowed Eyes, and a study of public art and urban sustainability, Curating Sydney: Imagining the City’s Future (with Jill Bennett). Her essays have appeared in a number of publications including the Iowa Review and Best Australian Essays. She is currently a Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany.
