Published in Overland Issue 216 Spring 2014 · Uncategorized Issue 216 Editorial team Contents Regulars Jeff Sparrow – Editorial Alison Croggon Mel Campbell Giovanni Tiso Stephen Wright Contributors FEATURES Laurie Penny Why I write Words against power JOHN MARNELL Imagined worlds Queer writing in Africa Various The future of magazines A survey of literary editors Rjurik Davidson On writer’s block What the blank page says about writing Hugo Race The crystal blitz, 1981 A memoir from post-punk Melbourne Barnaby Lewer Alternative spaces Utopian thought and the logic of capital Andrew Nette Disappeared in Laos What happened to Sombath Somphone? Dougal McNeill Migration, my nation! Poetry, world literature and resistance Shannon Woodcock Hope dies last Romani resistance to the Holocaust Jim Davidson Stephen’s vector The evolution of Overland’s founder FICTION Jennifer Mills – Fancy cuts: an introduction Christos Tsiolkas Petals Sarah Klenbort Into the woods Jacinda Woodhead Jellyfish POETRY Fiona Hile A portable crush Pam Brown Fading Collected melancholy Kate Fagan Thinking with things Ann Vickery Autumnal hook Keri Glastonbury Goodbye to all that Jill Jones Wind shadow 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 First published in Overland Issue 228 18 March 2024 · France Emmanuel Macron and the rearming of French demography Stephen Pascoe Demography, that supposedly neutral science of human statistics, is only ever one step away from politics. Especially so in France, where the national discourse over the past two months has summoned historical memory and hinted at political futures in disturbing admixture. First published in Overland Issue 228 8 March 20248 March 2024 · Poetry POETRY Gareth Morgan as if a poem were a person, me, i get up in the morning / i buy coffee in a can, and wait / you have to keep calm, “don't get upset” / or it fucks everything up. the bosses who tell me this / are wise but stupid troopers. this is a political poem