Published in Overland Issue 201 Summer 2010 · Main Posts / Writing Love Poem Anthony Lawrence Loved each other they did, and unconventionally not at all, and times there were for foolishness, undermining the mind of they tellingly, and faith in words them had, and action more than this, and together they were at a loss to gain or explain how going sideways mapped a path to willing away the us and we, their points of strength being wistful and circuitous, and absence too, emotional and even bodily until no sound could touch or re- invent what all of them had, when music was corruption, and books was, and being bookended, they faced in one-on-one counselling strategies certain to end the endings they were to remain, and so they windbreaked or shelterbelted farewells in deep knowledge, and goodbye said goodbye to itself and they were home. Anthony Lawrence Anthony Lawrence most recent book of poems, Bark (UQP, 2008), was short-listed for the Age Poetry Book of the Year award and the Judith Wright Calanthe Award. A verse novella, The Welfare of My Enemy, is forthcoming in 2011 from UQP. He lives in Newcastle. More by Anthony Lawrence 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.
