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259: Feb/Mar 2026

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In this highly anticipated new issue, we encounter brilliant examples of what writing can do in a hypernormal time – whether that's Benjamin Gready on the absurdity of fieldwork on land under active occupation or Zahid Gamieldien's short story about a dancing rat who finds itself enmeshed in systems too shadowy to be true. But, as with the emotional cycles of resistance, hope and snark are features too. Dan Hogan considers the lawn as a class obsession, and π.ο. asks a question: why people hate poetry? We also read about a rakhasa family who passes on wisdom to their young kin, a story by Shefali Mathew. And you’ll find new poetry by Eli McLean, Fiona Hile and Sol Chan, among others, as well as a comic by Safdar Ahmed, plus heaps more. Co-editors Evelyn Araluen and Jonathan Dunk write in the editorial, "Writing always matters, but it matters most directly in the face of this kind of thuggish assault on language, our first and last commons. We can’t let the bastards have it.”

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Overland literary journal > Print Issue 196 Spring 2009


Print Issue 196 Spring 2009

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‘Why are you still alive?’
Carmela Baranowska
feature | Thomas Shepherd
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Editorial
editorial | Jeff Sparrow
Jeff Sparrow
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Published in Overland Issue Print Issue 196 Spring 2009 · Reading

‘Why are you still alive?’

Carmela Baranowska
Five years later people no longer stop me in the street and ask: ‘What happened? Did the Taliban kidnap you? Why are you still alive?’ During two strange and chaotic […]
Published in Overland Issue Print Issue 196 Spring 2009 · Main Posts

feature | Thomas Shepherd

Editorial team
OVERLAND 196 spring 2009 ISBN 978-0-9805346-3-4 published 22 August 2009 A life in mirrors Jeff Sparrow and Rjurik Davidson meet Thomas Shepherd, a former ASIO informer Thomas Shepherd does not […]
Editorial
Published in Overland Issue Print Issue 196 Spring 2009 · Main Posts

editorial | Jeff Sparrow

Jeff Sparrow
OVERLAND 196 spring 2009 ISBN 978-0-9805346-3-4 published 22 August 2009 With the support of the City of Melbourne’s ‘Writing About Melbourne’ program, Overland approached four authors whose work we admired […]

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