Published in Overland Issue Print Issue 199 Winter 2010 · Main Posts / Writing 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 First published in Overland Issue 228 25 May 202326 May 2023 · Main Posts The ‘Chinese question’ and colonial capitalism in New Gold Mountain Christy Tan SBS’s New Gold Mountain sets out to recover the history of the Gold Rush from the marginalised perspective of Chinese settlers but instead reinforces the erasure of Indigenous sovereignty. Although celebrated for its multilingual script and diverse representation, the mini-TV series ignores how the settlement of Chinese migrants and their recruitment into colonial capitalism consolidates the ongoing displacement of First Nations peoples. First published in Overland Issue 228 23 February 202324 February 2023 · Writing From work to text, and back again: ChatGPT and the (new) death of the author Rob Horning Generative models extinguish the dream that Barthes’s Death of the Author articulates by fulfilling it. Their ‘tissue of signs’ seems less like revolution and more like the fear that AI will create a recursive postmodern nightmare world of perpetual sameness that we will all accept because we no longer remember otherwise or how to create an alternative.
