Published in Overland Issue 221 Summer 2015 · Uncategorized Trauerring Joel Scott 25/12/2013 the image is lossy, you shield your face before it burns out a whole in your skin, the day running into trouble, delayed, it thinks itself being deferent – flooded with light – your surfaces take on commodity sheen. the principle of rent. i dam lossing you i am lossy, hand you a morning ring in the trummerlight, it is an eye for you to look thru, and on the other side another eye, you put it down. you look, therefore you are good. some body senses rage and disgust on my face at the selfers paradise and they are right, but I just scribble in, and where the con- tours aren’t is where you are. Joel Scott Joel Scott is a poet and translator from Sydney who now lives in Berlin. He has published the chapbooks DIARY FARM (Vagabond Press, 2014) and BILDVERBOT (cross nougat press, 2017). His translation of volume two of Peter Weiss’s The Aesthetics of Resistance will be published by Duke University Press in 2020. More by Joel Scott › 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 13 April 2026 · Disability The proletarianisation of disability support work: workers’ perspectives on the NDIS Nick Crowley Support workers, rather than creating objects, create a caring relationship. The scrupulous observance of organisational policies and ‘best practice’ codes is not sufficient to create such a relationship. This can only be created when workers take the time to understand their clients and build trusting, authentic, equal relationships with them. 10 April 202610 April 2026 · open letter Open letter: RMIT staff and students oppose disciplinary action against Gemma Seymour over video opposing links to weapons ties RMIT University Staff and Students Freedom of speech and expression is absolutely vital in academic institutions. Students who engage in activism should not be punished for doing so, and discipline procedures are not there to be abused as a tool of intimidation. We call for the disciplinary process against Gemma to cease immediately.
