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 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.
