Published in Overland Issue Audio Overland · Writing What will be left of us? Omar Musa Omar Musa Omar Musa is an award-winning author, poet and rapper. He won the Australian Poetry Slam in 2008 and the Indian Ocean Poetry Slam in 2009. His debut novel, Here Come the Dogs, was published in 2014, and was long-listed for the Miles Franklin Award. Musa was named one of the Sydney Morning Herald’s Young Novelists of the Year 2015. More by Omar Musa › 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 11 December 202411 December 2024 · Writing The trouble Ken Bolton’s poems make for me, specifically, at the moment Linda Marie Walker These poems doom me to my chair and table and computer. I knew it was all downhill from here, at this age, but it’s been confirmed. My mind remains town-size, hemmed in by pine plantations and kanite walls and flat swampy land and hills called “mountains”. 17 July 202417 July 2024 · Writing “What is it that remains of us now”: witnessing the war on Palestine with Suheir Hammad Dashiell Moore The flame of her poetry scorches the states of exceptions that allow individual and state-sponsored violence to continue, unjustified, and unhistoricised. As we engage with her work, we are reminded that "chronic survival" is not merely an act of enduring but a profound declaration of existence.
