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 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.
