Published in Overland Issue 215 Winter 2014 · Uncategorized Land Mountain: winner of the Nakata Brophy Prize Jessica Hart The environment we create Is a ladle of particulates, A spoon feeding us A measureless enclave. What is a place If not a placement of shapes, Loops of forms, down, around … Wood, metal, words, sound? A seagull knows no hate, Or human thought, And knows no better Than what it’s learning. Sea floods, mazes of waves, Evening candles burning. Jessica Hart Jessica Hart is the winner of the Nakata Brophy Short Fiction and Poetry Prize for Young Indigenous Writers. More by Jessica Hart › 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 19 April 2024 · Friday Fiction Stilted J.E “Mahal” Cuya One hour after midnight. Everyone in rooms. Living room – dark. Table look like monsters. Like death. TV on stand. Netflix Logo. No one watching. Residents asleep. They have dementia. 18 April 202418 April 2024 · Education A Jellyfish government in NSW: public education’s privatisation-by-neglect Dan Hogan A private school that receives public money is not a private school: it is a fee-paying public school. The overfunding of private schools using public money is a symptom of a public service that has been rotted for a quarter of century by a political class with no vision beyond producing dubious, misleading statistics to deploy at the next election.
