Published in Overland Issue 223 Winter 2016 · Uncategorized pseudonyms for women (after Danez Smith) Anna Ryan-Punch burnt by moonlight had sustained stab wounds consequence of financial trouble in-home boxing gym promises for provocation kept to themselves til someone took them 140 characters including hyperlink possessive case light enough for carry-on ex sum of a subreddit domestic incident in waiting bloodied before the monthly blood began insulation for the crawl space (i thought to make a name for each one tallied, but who would read that long a poem?) disbelief of a quiet street Read the rest of Overland 223 – If you liked this article, please subscribe or donate. Anna Ryan-Punch Anna Ryan-Punch is a Melbourne poet and critic. Her previous publications include Westerly, Antipodes, Island, Overland, Southerly, and the new anthology Prayers of a Secular World. More by Anna Ryan-Punch › 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.