Published in Overland Issue 223 Winter 2016 · Uncategorized Luminosity Shale Preston Your teeth Rest momentarily On your Christina Rossetti lips But your eyes Thankfully Contain no hint of piety And devotional poetry Is as far from my mind As the spacecraft That is presently Sending images of The surprising Mountain Sitting In a moat On the surface of Pluto’s icy moon Read the rest of Overland 223 – If you liked this article, please subscribe or donate. Shale Preston Shale Preston is an Honorary Research Fellow in the English Department at Macquarie University. Her publications include Dickens and the Despised Mother: A Critical Reading of Three Autobiographical Novels (2013) and the co-edited Queer Victorian Families: Curious Relations in Literature (2015). More by Shale Preston › 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 25 May 2026 · The university Behind Craven’s audit Jeff Sparrow In November 2025, when antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal announced that Emeritus Professor Greg Craven would head what she called the “University Report Card Project”, the media referred to her plan as an “audit” of higher education’s response to antisemitism. It was never anything of the kind. 22 May 2026 · Friday Poetry Judas goats Caitlin Maling Because goats can climb / and cave, clamber to find cover / in the bushes of what they can’t eat / which isn’t much.
