Published in Overland Issue 221 Summer 2015 · Uncategorized Tamarisk Jason Walker ‘you missed it’, I asked? her pearl button stamped from shell time to re-negotiate that deal with a cigarette and halo’d by it’s coal we set to work once more draining day from the earth. Jason Walker Jason Walker is a pedal steel player and songwriter who works in wildly diverse genres. He is also a respected music writer and journalist who has published biographies on Gram Parsons and Billy Thorpe. More by Jason Walker › 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 15 May 2026 · Friday Fiction The structure Dominic Carew We made it to the park by eight. The winter sun was filtering through the far trees in a wan, lemon trickle, the thin clouds sheets of white. The cool sky a rubbed-at blue. The grass squelched beneath our feet and elsewhere, thinned from wear, the earth stretched grassless and muddy and, in some parts, released a thick mist. 8 May 202611 May 2026 · Nakata Brophy Prize The 2026 Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers (Poetry) Editorial Team Please follow this link to enter the prize. Sponsored by Trinity College at the University of Melbourne and supporters, the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers, established in 2014 […]