Published in Overland Issue 205 Summer 2011 · Uncategorized Issue 205 Jeff Sparrow summer 2011 ISBN 978-0-9871301-2-9 published 2 December 2011 Mattias Gardell on the Oslo massacre, the politics of Indigenous languages, an extract from Alexis Wright’s forthcoming novel and much more. Contents Regulars Jeff Sparrow − Editorial Alison Croggon Features Mattias Gardell − Terror in the Norwegian woods The rise of a anti-Muslim far Right in Europe Robert Bollard − Who was Bet B? Aboriginality and identity Xavier Rizos− Will the market save us? The logic of a carbon tax Brad Nguyen – Morality begone! Interpreting violence in the age of riots and revolution Stephanie Convery and Katrina Fox Sexing up animal rights: is it wrong? A discussion Rjurik Davidson – ‘You are sick! This is not art!’ Torture porn films and politics Sarah Drummond − Whale, daughter A slow death at sea Language and politics in Indigenous writing A PEN forum Arnold Zable John Bradley Kim Scott Marie Munkara Peter Slezak – Silence resembling stupidity The New Atheists and Islam Meanland: Caroline Hamilton – Sympathy for the devil? Small presses and free markets Debate Robert Lukins versus Ali Alizadeh That Australian Poetry should attempt to bring poetry into the mainstream Robert Lukins − Affirmative Ali Alizadeh − Negative Robert Lukins − Rebuttal Ali Alizadeh − Rebuttal Fiction Stephen Muecke − Experiment No. 1 in Animal Tourism Louise Pine − Letter to a small village Alexis Wright − extract from The Swan Book Poetry Cameron Lowe − Theatre Cath Drake − Fresh Kill Eileen Chong – Mary: A Fiction Angela Smith – Jennifer Maiden woke up in The Lodge Stuart Barnes – sad Molly Guy – Edith’s dead mother D J Huppatz – Bite the Wax Tadpole | Heide | One February or July Maketh Ajak – I need the finger of God inside my mind Phillip Hall – At Wentworth Falls Ruby Todd – the supplement Stuart Cooke – Elites Cover Yhonnie Scarce, What they wanted 2006–2010 courtesy the artist and Dianne Tanzer Gallery 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 20 December 202420 December 2024 · Reviews Slippery totalities: appendices on oil and politics in Australia and beyond Scott Robinson Kurmelovs writes at this level of confusion and contradiction for an audience whose unspoken but vaguely progressive politics he takes for granted and yet whose assumed knowledge resembles that of an outraged teenager. There should be a young adult genre of political journalism to accommodate books like this. 19 December 202419 December 2024 · Reviews Reading JH Prynne aloud: Poems 2016-2024 John Kinsella Poems 2016-2024 is a massive, vibrant and immersive collation of JH Prynne’s small press publication across this period. Some would call it a late life creative flourish, a glorious coda, but I don’t see it this way. Rather, this is an accumulation of concerns across a lifetime that have both relied on earlier form work and newly "discovered" expressions of genre that require recasting, resaying, and varying.
