Published in Overland Issue 206 Autumn 2012 · Uncategorized Issue 206 Editorial team autumn 2012 ISBN 978-0-9871301-3-6 published 19 March 2012 A mysterious death in Melbourne’s west, the European meltdown, the 2011 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize and much more. Contents Regulars Jacinda Woodhead − Editorial Alison Croggon Rjurik Davison Features Michael Green – Between two oceans Death in Footscray Tariro Mavondo – The dangers of a single story CAL Connections: living black in white Australia Jeff Sharlet – The five books of my apocalypse Writing and Occupy Wall Street Mike Beggs – Occupy abundance Are Australians too rich to protest? Richard Seymour – The European meltdown Crisis across the continent Hugo J Race – Blood and chocolate Keeping it together in Brazil Robert Darby – Another other Victorian George Drysdale, a forgotten sex pioneer Benjamin Laird – CEOS, authors and white-collar work Meanland: computers and class struggle Fiction James Bradley – The inconvenient dead SJ Finn – Tractor tractor Paul Dawson – Australian Academic Poetry Prize Peter Minter – 2011 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize Judge’s report Joel Ephraims – rock candy Poetry Toby Fitch – Sonar Kerry Leves – Constant companion Corey Wakeling – My Hounds Fiona Wright – Sunday poem Jessica L Wilkinson – Breathless Mathew Abbott – california | nevada | new mexico Mark Mordue – Mayfield Blues Editorial team More by Editorial team › 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 June 202520 June 2025 · Unions A democratic way forward for the CFMEU Sam Wallman and Sarah Missen As the one-year anniversary of administration approaches, this is the perfect moment for the rank-and-file members of the CFMEU to assess the way forward. The removed persons list should be torn up immediately, followed by fresh elections through the whole system — from delegates and HSRs right up to branch and national secretaries. 18 June 202518 June 2025 · Palestine Those to whom evil is done Yahia Lababidi What we need now is not more weapons or false neutrality. We need a reckoning. And we need imagination: a vision of coexistence built on equality, not exclusion. The idea that one people must disappear for another to thrive is a lie that has cost too many lives already.
