Published in Overland Issue 232 Spring 2018 Uncategorized Where r those poems now Holly Friedlander Liddicoat it’s wednesday night I’m walking down King Street past the Dendy outside a man sitting with a typewriter with a milk crate with his hands clasped with a sign out front: ‘POEM 4 U’ it rains and I skirt people like puddles head bent + heading /somewhere now near the fork; outside Cream – another man – tall, skinny, dark hair, dark shirt, twilight, fervent – fat stack of papers in arms tries: ‘hey! free poem! free poem!’ me + two others shake heads downcast just keep on descent into new night keep down Enmore now as the city peels itself back like bark like posters from poles like poems from books destined for this rubbish bin (or the next) Image: Former Enmore Post Office / flickr Read the rest of Overland 232 If you enjoyed this poem, buy the issue Or subscribe and receive four outstanding issues for a year Holly Friedlander Liddicoat Holly Friedlander Liddicoat has previously been published in Cordite, Otoliths, Rabbit, Seizure, Southerly and Voiceworks. In 2017 she edited poetry for Voiceworks and the UTS Writers’ Anthology and has twice been shortlisted for the UTS Writers’ Anthology Prize. Her first collection, Crave, is out with Rabbit in 2018. More by Holly Friedlander Liddicoat 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 2 First published in Overland Issue 228 3 February 20233 February 2023 Fiction Fiction | Romeo and Juliet II: Haunted rentals Georgia Symons The hauntings are actually quite flamboyant here, though. Yeah, come in, come in. Not like my friend Moya’s house—it just has a tool shed that sometimes isn’t there and that’s it. So boring. Yes, you can keep your shoes on. 2 First published in Overland Issue 228 2 February 20233 February 2023 The university Deadly word games: universities and defining antisemitism Nick Riemer In a few weeks, Vice-Chancellors will be discussing a request by a group of federal politicians to endorse the latest weapon in Zionists’ longstanding bid to suppress criticism of Israeli apartheid on campus—the highly controversial definition of antisemitism produced by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). Their decision will constitute a watershed moment for universities’ already somewhat threatened credibility as centres of independent analysis and truth-telling.
