Published in Overland Issue 224 Spring 2016 · Uncategorized Greenslopes in March Liam Ferney for H alternate versions of tom thumb’s blues you’re done up like somebody’s dream and that band next door makes young marble giants of triple m evergreens a weekend blanking the present while the salt water creek breathes under the highway snorkellers fetch oysters and outboard cowboys flirt with the vagaries of the bar the beautiful traces of a lie taking a tennis court oath a third date encounter of the suburban kind the blades topple the addicks en route to wembley a destiny to delight the marketing department it winds the month’s spring the way you unravel a story with more moving parts than the automaton barnuming the gossip shifting all the tickets to the miraculous medicine show i feel like a lucky country like a bloke who’s figured that if you dial up the moon and stare down the barrels any great adventure can be tapped Liam Ferney Liam Ferney’s most recent collection, is Hot Take His previous collection, Content, was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award and the Judith Wright Calanthe Award. His other books include Boom (Grande Parade Poets), Career (Vagabond Press) and Popular Mechanics (Interactive Press). He is a media manager, holder of the all-time games record for the New Farm Traktor Collective and convener of the Saturdays readings in Brisbane. More by Liam Ferney › 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 28 March 202428 March 2024 · Main Posts Why we should value not only lived experience, but also lived expertise Sukhmani Khorana In the wake of this year’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, I want to extend the central idea of El Gibbs’s 2022 essay on 'lived expertise' and argue that in media accounts of racism, analytical expertise and lived experience ought to be valued together and even in the same body. First published in Overland Issue 228 27 March 202427 March 2024 · Cartoons Visas for Palestinians: let them in Sam Wallman Sam Wallman makes the case for a visa scheme for Palestinians fleeing the war on Gaza.