To my friends and comrades, I’m not sure if there’s language to communicate how this last month has utterly changed me. This time a few weeks ago the busyness and chaos of bricolage arts and academic labour had so efficiently distracted me from my anxiety about the upcoming referendum that I forgot to prepare myself for its inevitable conclusion.

We’re halfway through Subscriberthon week, so we’re breaking it up with some trivia (no prizes for knowing the answers; you’ll have to subscribe for that!). Shout-out to those who have already subscribed—thanks for bearing with us until Friday! What is the Overland–Meanjin trophy made of? A carved emu egg A meat tray A commemorative statue […]

If you subscribe to Overland you will be able to read, alongside all the great fiction and non-fiction we publish, a whole range of poetry—10 pages per print issue of the latest work from some of the best poets, emerging and established, across Australia. This year saw outstanding new poems by Panda Wong, Heather Taylor Johnson, Josie/Jocelyn Suzanne, Jini Maxwell and Mitchell Welch, among many others, as well as the unmissable winner and runners up of the 2022 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize, Abbra Kotlarczyk, Yeena Kirkbright and Chris Brown.