201 Summer 2010

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Afghanistan, liberalism and bigotry; creativity and labour; the art of drawing money; and much, much more.

Issue Contents

Features

Podcasting as publishing

Myke Bartlett

The crowd is our domain

Marty Hiatt

The industrialised breast

Julie Stephens

Haunted tales

Jane Gleeson-White

The rhythm of engagement

Katherine Wilson

The banality of goodism

Jeff Sparrow

Fiction

Library of violence

Sam Twyford-Moore

Minerals are not nomads

Frank Boyce

Eddy

Cassie Wood

Blow in

Rebecca Giggs

Poetry

A dream of 1943

Geoff Page

Flight

Vikki McNaughton

On the long road

Hans Katakarinja

Love Poem

Anthony Lawrence

Lost Dog and its Breadcrumbs

Kent MacCarter

Aperture

James Stuart

By the sea

Philip Hammial

in the simple perfect

Adrian Wiggins

dinner with aspro

Michael Farrell

Homecoming

David Musgrave

Machine Code

David Musgrave

Tank Man

Eileen Chong

Terminus

Fiona Wright

Reviews

Gil Scott Heron Is on Parole

Stephen Lawrence

Editorial

Jacinda Woodhead

Debate

A big Australia?

Mark Diesendorf and Andrew Bartlett

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Features

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Podcasting as publishing

Myke Bartlett

During February’s Meanland: Reading in a time of change panel, literary critic Peter Craven argued that the future of books might depend on our ears.

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The crowd is our domain

Marty Hiatt

In her article ‘Driven to distraction’ (Overland 199), Cate Kennedy critiques contemporary internet culture from the perspective of the creative writer. While not opposed to the internet as such, Kennedy seeks to demonstrate that Web 2.0 technologies and the activities they facilitate (such as social networking, blogging and video-sharing) are rendering us permanently impatient, disinhibited yet isolated and unable to concentrate.

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The industrialised breast

Julie Stephens

There used to be a billboard in Melbourne that advertised milk by depicting young, large-breasted women cavorting on a trampoline. The radical graffiti activist group Buga-Up painted the words ‘Women are not cows’ in large letters across it.

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Haunted tales

Jane Gleeson-White

If it is possible to assess the current state of Australian literature through a reading of four novels published in late September and October 2010 – three first novels, Notorious by Roberta Lowing, Night Street by Kristel Thornell and Utopian Man by Lisa Lang, and one second novel, Bereft by Chris Womersley – then I’d say Australian fiction is haunted, preoccupied with the past.

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The rhythm of engagement

Katherine Wilson

Forty-three-year-old Gilda Civitico and I are sipping tea and talking about craft in the open-plan rear extension of the modest brick home she shares with her partner, electrical engineer Andrew Peel, and their two young daughters.

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The banality of goodism

Jeff Sparrow

‘Colonisation,’ Césaire argued, ‘dehumanises even the most civilised man; … colonial activity, colonial enterprise, colonial conquest, which is based on contempt for the native and justified by that contempt, inevitably tends to change him who undertakes it; … the coloniser, who in order to ease his conscience gets into the habit of seeing the other man as an animal, accustoms himself to treating him like an animal, and tends objectively to transform himself into an animal.’

Fiction

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Library of violence

Sam Twyford-Moore

That winter there was an image on the internet of a late-teen trapped in a frozen family swimming pool, his body half-submerged in ice, the other half attached to the lithe crane that was attempting to lift him out.

Published in Overland Issue 201 Summer 2010 · Writing

Minerals are not nomads

Frank Boyce

There is always rubbish at the South Point landfill. I’ve pushed it around for months now but it never goes anywhere. My boss simply says, ‘make sure the rubbish is gone by next week’. But the next week he doesn’t show up and the rubbish is still there.

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Eddy

Cassie Wood

For the past two hours the dope has been wearing off and your mother has been wearing you down. She offers you and Lucy a lift home. Even though the thought of catching a crowded tram makes you want to throw up – you can barely stand the touch of your own clothes on your skin – you turn her offer down.

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Blow in

Rebecca Giggs

The feet were the first to break away. I put on weight quickly in the months following the fires and so my feet spread out for balance. They reverted to feet from some human prehistory, all stiff hair and hide, the toes blackening. Whose feet are these? I looked on dumbfounded as they tried to stuff themselves back into the shoes at the end of the bed. Stamping around the hotel with that Neolithic gait, the unfamiliar, cavewoman pelvis – and whose feet had I dragged out of the aftermath?

Poetry

Published in Overland Issue 201 Summer 2010 · Writing

A dream of 1943

Geoff Page

They have no wish to hide themselves; they’re happy in their work.

Published in Overland Issue 201 Summer 2010 · Writing

Flight

Vikki McNaughton

i had a bath. life continues so you see it was necessary to have a bath. i turned the light off so the air was blue.

Published in Overland Issue 201 Summer 2010 · Writing

On the long road

Hans Katakarinja

This is a poem on the long road A trip to no where Step by step he drags his foot

Published in Overland Issue 201 Summer 2010 · Writing

Love Poem

Anthony Lawrence

Loved each other they did, and unconventionally not at all, and times there were for foolishness, undermining the mind of they tellingly, and faith

Published in Overland Issue 201 Summer 2010 · Writing

Lost Dog and its Breadcrumbs

Kent MacCarter

I tracked hints an e-thylacine shrieked at the black market – a thicket of kitsch spruiked inside browsers’ pawn. Trickling wingdings apace in blogosphere talk

Published in Overland Issue 201 Summer 2010 · Writing

Aperture

James Stuart

Brief squalls of blue, spliced between persistent rain.

Published in Overland Issue 201 Summer 2010 · Writing

By the sea

Philip Hammial

I want it so the dead are blind. Blind the way Easter comfort washes a stick-dry corpse, passion

Published in Overland Issue 201 Summer 2010 · Writing

in the simple perfect

Adrian Wiggins

I’m twitchy as a debutante on a hot October joyride doing two hundred down the hill road

Published in Overland Issue 201 Summer 2010 · Writing

dinner with aspro

Michael Farrell

when straight friends change teams / when something that appears to be a nest isnt. because the drive, because the expansion.

Published in Overland Issue 201 Summer 2010 · Writing

Homecoming

David Musgrave

Sun-damaged, sporty, wearing tracky-daks, passengers can’t be told from cabin crew apart from their uniforms, their Australian chilliness

Published in Overland Issue 201 Summer 2010 · Writing

Machine Code

David Musgrave

My eyes are like machine code, running lines up from the lanes and screens or avenues of trees my limbs walk down

Published in Overland Issue 201 Summer 2010 · Writing

Tank Man

Eileen Chong

He’d just been shopping. Nestled inside the bags were jars, tins, vegetables, maybe even a whole

Published in Overland Issue 201 Summer 2010 · Writing

Terminus

Fiona Wright

Little remains at track. Creepers, winding where the graded bed has grown so dank and soft

Reviews

Published in Overland Issue 201 Summer 2010 · Reviews

Gil Scott Heron Is on Parole

Stephen Lawrence

It seems as if Maxine Clarke wins every poetry slam she enters. Clarke writes poetry and produces freelance articles, often dealing with African descendants in a white culture. More importantly, she performs her poetry.

Editorial

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Editorial

Jacinda Woodhead

My first year at Overland has been an eye-opening entree into the politics and practice of publishing, writing and public debate in Australia – and in 2010, there has been much to debate.

Debate

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A big Australia?

Mark Diesendorf and Andrew Bartlett

Long before population became a public issue, debate had been stirring behind the scenes. There had been internal arguments within the environmental movement, with tension between those who recognised population as one of the three drivers of environmental damage, and those who wished to avoid taking a public position against population growth for fear of alienating some of their members.

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