Published in Overland Issue Print Issue 198 Autumn 2010 · Writing / Main Posts RE: Total Inexactitude Kate White she hulks a honeyeater’s beak invades her ear canal – watch, the concrete’s too yeasty Cu Chi tunnels zipping and unzipping her wide, brown lands, for me. secrets churning, plenipotentiary dust risen against a burning will. the soil’s birthright lives a lucid death nothing to grow. We have rules, you know a Council for that a man with a chainsaw wondering where to go too much green just anywhere can’t say as i’ve seen it lately though whistle for the sheepdog, round-up such avarice and vice Zone 12, depiction C, sub-set 88B. fit me for a Form or two just to be precise in our total inexactitude. sus · tain · a · bil · i · ty, what was that, Luv? noun it wants filling out again the dog’s a bit fat to run. Kate White Kate White is a Sydney/London-based writer and photographer. Her poems, short fiction and articles have appeared in the Maynard, Australian Review and Sublime Rush. More by Kate 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 28 March 20249 April 2024 · Main Posts Why we should value not only lived experience, but also lived expertise Sukhmani Khorana In the wake of this year’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, I want to extend the central idea of El Gibbs’s 2022 essay on 'lived expertise' and argue that in media accounts of racism, analytical expertise and lived experience ought to be valued together and even in the same body. 5 March 2024 · Main Posts Andrew Charlton’s school assignment Alex McKinnon Australia's Pivot to India exists for three reasons: so that when Andrew Charlton is interviewed on the radio or introduced on Q+A, his bio includes the phrase "he has written a book about Indian-Australian relations"; to fend off accusations that he is another Kristina Keneally engaging in electoral colonialism in western Sydney; and to help the Albanese government strengthen economic and military ties with Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party.
