Published in Overland Issue 210 Autumn 2013 · Uncategorized Issue 210 Editorial team Contents Regulars Jeff Sparrow – Editorial Alison Croggon Rjurik Davidson Features Aaron Bady Zero dark Geronimo The novel in the age of terror Alyena Mohummadally ‘I thought I was the only one!’ CAL–Connections: On coming out queer and Muslim Francesca Rendle-Short Field guide to writing a father On piecing together a relationship Panagiotis Sotiris The dark dawn of Greek neo-fascism Nazism in the heart of Europe Martin Kovan The year of great burning Tibet and the challenge of self-immolation Kate Davison My German question Israel, Palestine and the German Left Dean Biron The aesthetics of conservatism The case for uncomfortable art Philip Mirowski, Jeremy Walker and Antoinette Abboud Beyond denial How environmentalists confront the wrong problem Guy Rundle Chaos and convergence Why hacktivists and the Left need each other Poetry Prize Peter Minter – Judge’s report Luke Fischer Augury? First place Fiona Hile The owl of Lascaux Second place Myles Gough The watchmaker’s wrath Third place Fiction Theresa Layton The cartography of foxes Andrés Vaccari American djinn 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 May 202620 May 2026 · Reviews Are you experienced? Louis Armand Pam Brown’s poetry has been described as both conversational and deeply layered, its historical consciousness seemingly belied by a fragmentary, diaristic style. An easy comparison might be drawn with the work of her long-time friend Ken Bolton, which often achieves a sense of over-arching unity of vision expressed in monologue form. Bolton’s work can appear exhaustive — long prose-like stanzas — where Brown’s seems to flicker down the page like dawn through the mangroves on the drive to Cronulla. 18 May 202618 May 2026 · Militarisation Sacrificed for the Pentagon: on Australia’s “security” crisis Gwenaël Velge The connection between the Jarrah Forest, the submarine base, and the data centres is not metaphorical. It is the three pillars of AUKUS, made material in a single city. Pillar III strips the forest to supply aluminium and gallium to the other two pillars, gutting environmental and water security.
