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.”
OVERLAND 194 autumn 2009 ISBN 978-0-9805346-1-0 published 22 March 2009
OVERLAND 192spring 2008 ISBN 978-0-9775171-9-0 published 31 August 2008
OVERLAND 191 winter 2008 ISBN 978-0-9775171-8-3published 23 May 2008
OVERLAND 188 spring 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-5-2published 20 September 2007
WEB CONTENT ONLY published 12 November 2008 ‘Ours is in colour’: The New Left of the sixties, forty years on Raewyn Connell on 1968 and all that. What was the […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 A SOCIABLE PARADISE Kevin Foster considers the quest for an authentic Australia Between May and October 1851, the Great Exhibition […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 “THIS FASCIST MOB” Shane Cahill examines the wartime investigation into Japanese militarism and the Institute of Public Affairs “Fascism rears […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 LOOKING OUT AT THE LIGHTS: NEW POETRY Kerry Leves Laurie Duggan: The Passenger (UQP, ISBN 070223555, $23.95) The Passenger is […]
OVERLAND 199 winter 2010 ISBN 978-0-9805346-6-5 published 31 May 2010 The pirate code Emmett Stinson on copyright, books and music Right now publishers are abuzz with discussions of ‘book futures’ […]
OVERLAND 188 spring 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-5-2published 20 September 2007 Years ago I lived – not quite legally – in a studio in St Kilda’s landmark George Hotel. I owned an […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 Travelling Types 1 The boy reading On the Road at the railway station & the boy sneering at him, having […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 Shackled He had a choice but chose to look away we had a choice but chose to look away fear […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 Elegy For in memoriam, Dave McComb Concurrent, we fill the city. Without, the air is too full though we break […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 Neath Colliery: a found poem Years later in the 1960’s [sic], the by then huge dump of chitter, shale, pit […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 Culture and Its Terrors Similes, nature analogies, never so apt to term the pitfalls, assaults upon the soul’s integrity. Imagine […]
OVERLAND 189 summer 2007 ISBN 978-0-9775171-6-9 published 21 November 2007 dismantling the you stand on the edge of something suddenly spac- ious as the ev- ening begins to blur, begins […]
