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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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Tina Makereti

Tina Makereti’s novel Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings (Vintage, 2014) won the Ngā Kupu Ora Aotearoa Māori Book Award for Fiction, as did her short story collection Once Upon a Time in Aotearoa in 2011. She currently works on Queen’s Wharf, Wellington, where her monster first emerged some years ago. tinamakereti.com

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Published in Overland Issue 219 Winter 2015 ·

Monster

Tina Makereti

It came out of the sea on a Saturday morning, heaving its body onto the rocks beside the boat sheds in the darkness before dawn. It sat in a shallow pool potted with black mussels and a slick of seaweed while it took a few breaths, then drew itself up the stairs. It could smell rust and exhaust fumes.