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251 Winter 2023

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William Fox

William Fox is a poet from Naarm/Melbourne. His work has appeared previously in Overland, as well in Meanjin, Island, Southerly, and The Best Australian Poems series of books. His debut collection will be released by Rabbit in late 2022.

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Published in Overland Issue 241 Summer 2020 ·

Great dividing range

William Fox

I would like to try to find it again, this time without laminated map, without compass worn like a whistle. I hated school camp up to when group 3 snowballed off a ridge track into an accidental valley

23 September 202019 October 2020 · Urbanism

Protecting the Eastern Freeway, and what it can tell us about heritage

William Fox

There are humanistic benefits to heritage, but it is also a concept that can be exploited for the purpose of ossification and stasis, and for the maintenance of a type of privilege that should be challenged, not set behind glass. The Eastern Freeway recommendation exemplifies these paradoxes.

25 May 20188 June 2018 · Poetry

No more band-aid solutions: the close reading of a poem

William Fox

In the ‘We are the world’ footage, Dylan is either drunk or high or just beginning to be dully suspicious of the whole charity super-group music-single enterprise. He barely mouths the lyrics to the song, if he knows them at all.