Published in Overland Issue 223 Winter 2016 · Uncategorized Still dreaming Susie Orpen When I woke that morning I felt as if I had a slight fever; warm and viscous with the slippery perception of vertigo. My vision was clear, but tepid and it slid. There was the suggestion of oblivion in the periphery, like optical vignetting, like low blood pressure. Movement was a slow, shaky playback. My whole body listed sideways – I was an ungainly ship, and the air had waves in it, twittering, full of static. Read the rest of Overland 223 – If you liked this article, please subscribe or donate. Susie Orpen Susie Orpen is an emerging poet writing in Melbourne. More by Susie Orpen 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 First published in Overland Issue 228 31 May 202331 May 2023 · Film In Memoriam: Kenneth Anger’s cinematic incantations Eloise Ross ‘Making a movie is casting a spell,’ said Kenneth Anger about his lifelong profession, his unique and spectacular talent, his very own dark magic. That certainly describes how I was lured into his realm. There was a time in my life where I would watch Anger’s seven-minute film Rabbit’s Moon basically on repeat, infatuated by its blue-tinted images of a sprightly harlequin dancing around a clearing and calling silently to the moon. It was poetry. First published in Overland Issue 228 29 May 202330 May 2023 · The university Universities as tools of apartheid Nick Riemer In his new book Boycott Theory and the Struggle for Palestine: Universities, Intellectualism and Liberation (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023), Nick Riemer mounts a comprehensive argument for the institutional academic boycott of Israel. This edited extract outlines the central rationale for the boycott—Israeli universities’ institutional role in enabling apartheid, occupation and anti-Palestinianism.
