Published in Overland Issue 229 Summer 2017 · Uncategorized Band | Aid Aidan Coleman Animals attack whichever celebrity. Everything else can be summed up as tennis. Statues yanked out and the squares fill with custard. Day’s equation adjusts incrementally for agile pushers, precarious trucks. Darks and neons plucked from our mouths before we can ask. What of those shades of menace we lost, simply a matter of costume? Your plane dropped eggs on hapless villains, who – accordingly chastened – went home. Read the rest of Overland 229 If you enjoyed this poem, buy the issue Or subscribe and receive four outstanding issues for a year Aidan Coleman Aidan Coleman has published two poetry collections, the most recent, Mount Sumptuous (Wakefield Press, 2020). He is an Early Career Researcher at the JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at the University of Adelaide. More by Aidan Coleman › 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 7 March 20257 March 2025 · Poetry 3 songs for Charles Darwin John Forbes begins with languor, / the past tense of caress / which, besides flies & heat haze / post stress, / the intense air supplies — no ostrich feather fans / or punkahs needed — just to be at rest. 5 March 20255 March 2025 · Human rights Showing what really matters to us: on Australia’s continuing failure to honour the UN Convention Against Torture Monique Hurley and Andreea Lachsz So why have there been no — or only limited — moves to implement the bare minimum obligations pursuant to the OPCAT? The answer appears to be a lack of political will and a dangerous disregard for the lives of people detained behind bars.
