Published in Overland Issue False Documents · Uncategorized Short Documentary Film Festival Tony Messenger Lead image: Frank Hurley photographing under the bows of the ‘Endurance’, 1915 / State Library of New South Wales Read the rest of False Documents If you enjoyed this special edition, subscribe and receive a year’s worth of print issues, the online magazine, special editions and discounted entry to our literary competitions Tony Messenger Tony Messenger is a writer, critic and interviewer who has had works published in Southerly journal and Mascara Literary Review. He blogs about translated fiction and interviews Australian poets at Messenger’s Booker. More by Tony Messenger › 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 5 June 20265 June 2026 · Friday Fiction Hobo portraits: Treadly Tim & the falling star Patrick Holland We crossed the half-buried railway line and the crazy man known as Treadly Tim turned a corner around the van park on Simeon Street and came toward us on his Malvern Star bicycle. 3 June 20263 June 2026 · Reviews The past in the object: Vanessa Berry’s Calendar Courtney Powell In her latest book, Calendar, Vanessa Berry explores the relationships that are formed between people and material culture, both fleeting and sentimental, and how they can come to represent us.
