Published in Overland Issue Electronic Overland · Uncategorized Disappearing Hazel Smith, Roger Dean and Greg White Download the four-channel version of ‘Disappearing’. Hazel Smith Hazel Smith is a poet, performer and new media artist. She has published three volumes of poetry, three CDs of performance work and numerous multimedia works. Hazel is a research professor in the Writing and Society Research Centre at the University of Western Sydney, and has also published several academic books. Her website is austraLYSIS. More by Hazel Smith › Roger Dean Roger Dean is a composer/improviser, and a research professor in music cognition and computation at the MARCS Institute, University of Western Sydney. He directs the sound and multimedia ensemble austraLYSIS. His work is on 40 CDs, and he has released numerous digital intermedia pieces. He has written five books on improvisation. His website is austraLYSIS. More by Roger Dean › Greg White Greg White is a performer, composer, programmer and educator. He is currently Associate Dean (Production) and Head of Composition & Music Production at the Australian Institute of Music (Sydney). His creative work has been presented at numerous international venues. He is a core member of austraLYSIS, and the jazz/world music group Gest8. Greg's website is Great white noise. More by Greg White › 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 22 May 2026 · Friday Poetry Judas goats Caitlin Maling Because goats can climb / and cave, clamber to find cover / in the bushes of what they can’t eat / which isn’t much. 20 May 202620 May 2026 · Reviews Are you experienced? Louis Armand Pam Brown’s poetry has been described as both conversational and deeply layered, its historical consciousness seemingly belied by a fragmentary, diaristic style. An easy comparison might be drawn with the work of her long-time friend Ken Bolton, which often achieves a sense of over-arching unity of vision expressed in monologue form. Bolton’s work can appear exhaustive — long prose-like stanzas — where Brown’s seems to flicker down the page like dawn through the mangroves on the drive to Cronulla.
