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 27 May 2026 · Reviews Losing our sense of struggle: Fiona Wright’s Kill Your Boomers May Ngo The precarity described in Kill Your Boomers feels mitigated — more existential than material. It’s the precarity of being lost in your life, rather than the threat of having to sleep out on the streets. 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.
