Published in Overland Issue 209 Summer 2012 · Uncategorized Types Jal Nicholl supervene on the typical nonsense from afar asemic street and business signs What’s the point trying on a garment you know is neither your size nor style? of telling a story in which no-one will recognise any of their selves? Might as well form a ménage à trois and share beautiful feelings with the woman you love and the man she loves in France in the 18th c. and not say anything for fear of the pain it might cause the misunderstanding It isn’t that she likes soldiers per se or anyway not exclusively: just that she grew up in a military town, her father a tough guy, a real alpha male who was hardly ever around Jal Nicholl Jal Nicholl possesses high-level communication, interpersonal and problem-solving skills and is proficient in Microsoft Office. His poems have appeared in the Age, Best Australian Poems, Overland and other venues. More by Jal Nicholl › 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 11 February 202511 February 2025 · Aboriginal Australia Acknowledgements without land Heba A What are land acknowledgements without land back? When you pay your respects to the dead whose descendants remain dispossessed, or recognise the “traditional owners” of the land that you now possess and reap as a gift of your modernity … whose voice is it that you hear? 10 February 202510 February 2025 · open letter Open letter on academic freedom, in solidarity with Randa Abdel-Fattah Scholars against political repression We, the undersigned, write to express our condemnation of the decision by the Education Minister Jason Clare to request the Australian Research Council (ARC) to investigate the Future Fellowship of Macquarie University academic Randa Abdel-Fattah “as a matter of priority”.
