Published in Overland Issue Print Issue 197 Summer 2009 · Main Posts Issue 197 Jeff Sparrow Contents Regulars Jeff Sparrow − Editorial Correspondence Towards 200: Fiona Capp − The Lost Garden CAL Art and Life: Darshana Jayemanne − The Resident of Evil Creek* Essays Guy Rundle − When the rubric hits the Rudd Anwyn Crawford − The monarch of middlebrow Lizzie O’Shea − Beautiful as the sunset Francesca Rendle-Short − My father’s body Sophie Cunningham − Places of shade Thomas Rye − Sea eagle dreaming Liz Thompson & Ben Rosenzweig − Permanent residency not sold separately, education not included Fiction Shane Strange − Fiveash David McLaren − An odd sort of absence Virginia Peters − The fat man Warren Barker − Devil take the child (online only) (PDF) Reviews Kerry Leves − poetry Peter Mitchell − Marion May Campbell Keri Glastonbury − Tom Cho Tom O’Lincoln − politics Poetry Kate Fagan − Authentic Nature Claire Gaskin − walking away Martin Harrison − this rain Hugh Tolhurst − HMAS Musicianship Caroline Williamson − Winter morning Nick Whittock − barbados − pilates of the caribbean Jal Nicholl − The doorkeeper Les Wicks − Terminal One Duncan Hose − Sat. morning Sam Langer − Rome Jeff Sparrow Jeff Sparrow is a writer, editor, broadcaster and Walkley award-winning journalist. He is a former columnist for Guardian Australia, a former Breakfaster at radio station 3RRR, and a past editor of Overland. His most recent book is a collaboration with Sam Wallman called Twelve Rules for Strife (Scribe). He works at the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne. More by Jeff Sparrow › 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 20 March 20262 April 2026 · Main Posts Final results of the 2025 Judith Wright Poetry Prize Editorial team Established in 2007 and supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize seeks outstanding poetry from new and emerging writers. This year’s judges, Shastra Deo, Harry Reid and […] 20 March 202620 March 2026 · Main Posts Final results of the 2025 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize Editorial team Established in 2007 and supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, the Overland Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize seeks outstanding original short fiction of up to 3000 words themed loosely around the notion […]
