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253 Summer 2023/4

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Dženana Vucic on the subtle and not-so-subtle Marxist symbolism in Sailor Moon, John Docker, a "non-theatre person" by his own admission on The New Theatre, Sarah Schwartz on prison healthcare as punishment and the killing of Veronica Nelson, a poignant short story on memory and displacement from Nasrin Mahoutchi-Hosaini, Jeanine Leane's prize-winning poem, "Water under the bridge", and more.

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Shaine Melrose

Shaine Melrose is a queer writer living with chronic illness, in the Adelaide hills. Recently, Shaine was shortlisted for the 2022 Judith Wright Poetry Prize and published in Saltbush Review, Australian Poetry, Bramble Journal and Cordite Poetry Review. Shaine won publication in Friendly Street Poets’ New Poets #23 with her short manuscript ‘Shooting Words from My Soul’.

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Published in Overland Issue 250 Autumn 2023 · Poetry

Soft fruit

Shaine Melrose

Raspberries didn’t always come in plastic punnets. Pinkish pixel villages, bleeding at the slightest pressure. Raspberries blast my tastebuds. Red juice runs along blemished fingers into a ravenous mouth, a flash and snare of tangled canes in the valley.