Published in Overland Issue Print Issue 199 Winter 2010 · Writing / Main Posts lyrebird Duncan Hose Ned Kelly as landscape – Sid Nolan’s idea Ned Kelly member of the family Ned Kelly as bully Ned Kelly softy keeper of paycocks. Ned Kelly as ploughshare Rosella can of condensed Ned Kelly as the auld Surfers Paradise of lagoons and shrikes Ned Kelly as a green Ribbon – twenty years in yr. pocket Ned Kelly as Red Kelly in drag If you believe Peter Carey Ned Kelly as the October mow- & old scotch foreskin jokes Ned Kelly as lunatic fringe of desert spring, as Meaghan Morris Leaving Tenterfield in her teens, or Newcastle forever Ned Kelly as bushel of Tasmanian heads Ned Kelly as a Mentone bookie in suede Fletcher Jones Jeans. Ned Kelly as Melton junkie. Ned Kelly as Bon Scott’s Letters to Adelaide & sister Irene Ned Kelly as a TV celebrity’ s dog wading the scum at St Kilda sniffing at the golden band of freeway i’ th’ West Ned Kelly as downtown Melbourne shamrockery :conspiracy of clover, ‘trefoil’, or when you’re German Dreiblattbogen ‘De Tird Oiye’ say Dubliners, meaning pagan punch Ned Kelly as the night-jar, bone-jar little jar of bones we’d worship if we c’ld find it if we c’ld find it. Duncan Hose Duncan Hose is runner-up in the 2009 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets. He is a poet and postgraduate scholar, currently living in Melbourne. More by Duncan Hose › 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 11 December 202411 December 2024 · Writing The trouble Ken Bolton’s poems make for me, specifically, at the moment Linda Marie Walker These poems doom me to my chair and table and computer. I knew it was all downhill from here, at this age, but it’s been confirmed. My mind remains town-size, hemmed in by pine plantations and kanite walls and flat swampy land and hills called “mountains”. 4 October 202418 October 2024 · Main Posts Announcing the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers 2024 longlist Editorial Team Sponsored by Trinity College at the University of Melbourne and supporters, the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers, established in 2014 and now in its ninth year, recognises the talent of young Indigenous writers across Australia.
