Published in Overland Issue 213 Summer 2013 Uncategorized Wander in &/Under Stuart Cooke I wander in her woollen hat caught like object world of legs dark eyes the city becomes feeling heels click iron bent into green I know this much I am trodden by a gull’s filthy hotel a self-conscious heart this spotted elephant click I want each and one especially your flint fried in pathetic liquid a field I want especially this cold booth a skin wrapped in skin every object sex is shackle melodic current swooning over trodden by conscious spurious motors prerogatives in tend I wander her forgotten hat I dark eyes your desire under a skirt like flakes struck from flint like leathery spine flakes Stuart Cooke Stuart Cooke’s latest chapbook, Departure into Cloud, was published by Vagabond Press in 2013. His full-length collection is Edge Music (IP, 2011). He is a lecturer in creative writing and literary studies at Griffith University on the Gold Coast. More by Stuart Cooke 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 First published in Overland Issue 228 30 March 2023 Culture RollerCoaster Tycoon and the art of niche hobbies Zac Picker As a writer, I spend too much time awake at night worrying about building an audience for my work. And yet, I spend even more time awake at night, planning my next RollerCoaster Tycoon park in my head, for an audience of the hundred-or-so RCT parkmakers I care about the most. First published in Overland Issue 228 29 March 2023 Aboriginal Australia Standing in the dawn’s new light: truth-telling for settlers Anthony Kelly There’s a paradox about being a settler in a stolen country. No matter when we arrived, we inherited the bounty of genocidal violence. Many of us are the beneficiaries of the intergenerational wealth-building that saw English, Irish and Scottish settler families grow rich on the sheep, timber, wheat and resources provided by stolen land. We have a profound responsibility to dismantle the ‘lie-telling’ because it shores up this legacy and the systems of colonial violence that continue in our lifetimes.
