Published in Overland Issue 257 Summer 2024 · Uncategorized Editorial Evelyn Araluen and Jonathan Dunk This archival edition gathers relics from Overland’s rich archive of radical Australian writing and editing, preserved in the usage and idiosyncrasies of their times. RH Morrison writes in the editorial to the 1973 Vietnam Voices protest edition that poets who stifle their consciences or maim their own humanity become mute. As 2025 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the war in Vietnam we hope that these fragments will help you keep your consciences clear and your voices ringing. Bugalwan, solidarity. Evelyn Araluen Evelyn Araluen is a Goorie and Koori poet, researcher and co-editor of Overland Literary Journal. Her Stella-prize winning poetry collection DROPBEAR was published by UQP in 2021. More by Evelyn Araluen › Jonathan Dunk Jonathan Dunk is the co-editor of Overland, a widely published poet and scholar. He lives on Wurundjeri country. More by Jonathan Dunk › 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 4 29 May 202629 May 2026 · Politics Zionism in real-time: insights from the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion Nick Riemer While the Royal Commission sits, Israel continues to murder and starve Gazans as they try somehow to survive. Since the genocide is, indisputably, the necessary overarching context for a discussion of antisemitism in Australia at the present moment, it is perverse that the Commission has refused to hear from the Palestine solidarity movement. 27 May 2026 · Reviews Losing our sense of struggle: Fiona Wright’s Kill Your Boomers May Ngo The precarity described in Kill Your Boomers feels mitigated — more existential than material. It’s the precarity of being lost in your life, rather than the threat of having to sleep out on the streets.
