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organic butter dollwave paraphernalia floating in stratospheric well connected Epicurus

Gothic or classic silent running cool vertical public square cube precisely a circle

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thirtysix milkbars follow the flowers hip hip bop bop polka dot Jerry red spring onions

Mallarme Mallarme Rimbaud Boulez Boulez surfing Gunnamatta with Macca

transcendental microseconds crystal glass syncopation curl curl blue hair thursday

zen Taliesen east west concrete rock Stravinsky Nijinsky transforming Vivaldi discords

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Leif Mahoney is a former architect and art gallery director, who is an art language artist. His major project has been the abstract dada novel Nunawading.

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256 Spring 2024

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Overland 256 is the third issue in a suite of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. Inside its pages you'll find: Daniel Browning on the politics of memory, Antonia Pont on impatience, Sarah Wehbe on Palestinian fury and joy, and a special editorial by our departing poetry editor Toby Fitch. There's also new short fiction from Rowan MacDonald, Bethany Lalor and Amalia Stone, and new poetry from Josie Suzanne, Tim Loveday, Lulu Houdini and more.