201 Summer 2010 Buy this issue 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 Editorial Jacinda Woodhead Debate A big Australia? Mark Diesendorf and Andrew Bartlett Browse the issue: Features 2 Published in Overland Issue 201 Summer 2010 · Main Posts 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. 3 Published in Overland Issue 201 Summer 2010 · Main Posts 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. 2 Published in Overland Issue 201 Summer 2010 · Main Posts 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. 1 Published in Overland Issue 201 Summer 2010 · Main Posts 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. 2 Published in Overland Issue 201 Summer 2010 · Main Posts 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. 3 Published in Overland Issue 201 Summer 2010 · Main Posts 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 2 Published in Overland Issue 201 Summer 2010 · Writing 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. 1 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. Published in Overland Issue 201 Summer 2010 · Writing 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. 1 Published in Overland Issue 201 Summer 2010 · Main Posts 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. 1 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 1 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 Published in Overland Issue 201 Summer 2010 · Main Posts 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 4 Published in Overland Issue 201 Summer 2010 · Main Posts 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. Previous Issue Print Issue 200 Spring 2010 Next Issue 202 Autumn 2011
