Published in Overland Issue 202 Autumn 2011 · Main Posts Issue 202 Jeff Sparrow Contents Regulars Jeff Sparrow − Editorial Correspondence Alison Croggon Essays Guy Rundle − ‘Open-eyed conspiracy his time doth take’ Wendy Bacon − Being free by acting free Rjurik Davidson − Imagining new worlds Bob Gosford − ‘They took our culture — now there is no law’ Alexis Wright − Talking about tomorrow Patricia Gillespie − [In]Dignity CAL–Connections essay: David Donaldson − Masculinity and the homosexual advance defence • Meanland: Caroline Hamilton − The exposure economy Focus Shaun Tan Poetry Prize • Peter Minter − Judge’s report K A Nelson − Chorus of crows Fiction Kalinda Ashton − Simpler than that Helen Dinmore − Unplugged Clare Strahan − Finders keepers Poetry Jennifer Compton − I Came Home with the Shopping Jane Gibian − tidemark John Kinsella − Survey Davide Angelo − Untitled Stuart Cooke − Ash-brie’s Old Blue Kevin Gillam − the purpling Michael Farrell − The Influence of Lorca in the Outback Reviews Justin Clemens – Being caught dead Cover Shaun Tan − detail from The Reader, 2010 • Supported by Copyright Agency Limited Cultural Fund • Supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation 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 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. 16 August 202416 August 2024 · Poetry pork lullaby Panda Wong but an alive pig / roots in the soil /turning it over / with its snout / softening the ground / is this a hymn
