Published in Overland Issue The 2017 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize · Uncategorized Highly Commended: Tick tock Rachel Bos Watch out We’re coming Out from the edges, the cracks, from under our bridges. Our rage a metallic tang on our tongues Clashing, clanging and loud. We wear our pride like armour, our outrage flung at you like spears. No longer silent, We break free, Bursting through that which have held us Rushing at you, overwhelming in intensity. We won’t be silent and we won’t bow down. Our roar is deafening. It’s time. Image: Matthew Piatt Rachel Bos Rachel Bos is a teacher and writer. More by Rachel Bos › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays 1 6 November 2026 · Friday Fiction Headland Harry Goddard He must have still been sore. I could tell from the winces he made as he scooted down the trail. Some unspoken agreement of not hitting other people’s children — and the circumstances of me not being that type of kid — spared me from the same punishment. I was taken to my parents who agreed I would have to work off the damages, and I must have mowed the lawn once, or cleaned the family car. 4 November 2026 · Film MIFF, Minotaur and the politics of maternal reception Alicia Byrnes Maternal labour is, in the terms I’ve set out here, not labour at all. Noisy, unfocused, mobile, perhaps even sleepy — it is an affront to arthouse film viewing and therefore unserious.
