Published in Overland Issue 221 Summer 2015 · Uncategorized Issue 221 Editorial team REGULARS Editorial Alison Croggon Mel Campbell Stephen Wright Giovanni Tiso Contributors FEATURES Ben Eltham The excellence criterion The future of arts funding Laurie Penny Facebook absolution On corporate policing of identity Eliora Avraham Transgender justice A manifesto Sam Wallman Ain’t no border high enough Crossing Fortress Europe Jessie Webb Reading machines The need to speed-read Sophie Cunningham Gold rush Housing politics in the Mission District Lauren Carroll Harris Are Australian universities creating good artists? Capitalism and the canvas Simon Gennard Simply air vibrating The myths of Master Marconi FICTION 2015 VU Short Story Prize report Barry Lee Thompson First place: Their cruel routines Jennifer Down Runner-up: Alpine Road Genevieve Poetka Runner-up: Faking 2015 Story Wine Prize report Melissa Manning Woodsmoke POETRY joanne Burns breakfast at the end of a financial year john Kinsella Madingley Vanessa Kirkpatrick Night air Cameron Lowe Glow Fuse Kevin gillam ’73 Derek Motion pages Philip Neilsen Noosa Beach Joel Scott Trauerring Jason Walker Tamarisk Deb Westbury Magnetic Poetry Kit – mostly found 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 December 202420 December 2024 · Reviews Slippery totalities: appendices on oil and politics in Australia and beyond Scott Robinson Kurmelovs writes at this level of confusion and contradiction for an audience whose unspoken but vaguely progressive politics he takes for granted and yet whose assumed knowledge resembles that of an outraged teenager. There should be a young adult genre of political journalism to accommodate books like this. 19 December 202419 December 2024 · Reviews Reading JH Prynne aloud: Poems 2016-2024 John Kinsella Poems 2016-2024 is a massive, vibrant and immersive collation of JH Prynne’s small press publication across this period. Some would call it a late life creative flourish, a glorious coda, but I don’t see it this way. Rather, this is an accumulation of concerns across a lifetime that have both relied on earlier form work and newly "discovered" expressions of genre that require recasting, resaying, and varying.
