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251 Winter 2023

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New fiction, poetry, and essay from literary luminaries such as Daniel Browning, Bill Gammage, Jen Craig, Rico Craig, Luoyang Chen, Jane Downing, and Jo Langdon. Featuring cover art from Liss Fenwick's haunting Humpty Doom series.

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Overland literary journal > Print Issue 193 Summer 2008


Print Issue 193 Summer 2008

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Oil, war and the necessity for dissent, why we don’t know anything about the war in Afghanistan, Oodgeroo versus the NT intervention and much more.

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Reviews
The ‘lore’ of diminishing returns
John Kinsella
Prolific Rhetoric
Elizabeth Campbell
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First published in Overland Issue 228
Published in Overland Issue Print Issue 193 Summer 2008 · Writing

The ‘lore’ of diminishing returns

John Kinsella
Replying to bad reviews is a fatal pastime. For those opposed to the tenor of the review, it gives credence to a reviewer who deserves none. For those who agree with the review, the defensiveness of the respondent confirms their opinion. I was not going to reply, but have since decided to do so because […]
First published in Overland Issue 228
Published in Overland Issue Print Issue 193 Summer 2008 · Writing

Prolific Rhetoric

Elizabeth Campbell
John Kinsella has published, as poet, essayist and editor, more than forty books. The latest are the poems, Shades of the Sublime and Beautiful, and the collection of essays, Contrary Rhetoric: Lectures on Landscape and Language. The essays set out material for the poet's main thematic preoccupations: the Western Australian wheatbelt, its history, culture and environment.

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