Published in Overland Issue 240 Spring 2020 Uncategorized Orange Christopher Brown West of Katoomba on every bit of your brakes ent’ring dubitable wine country. Wellington Kirkconnell Lithgow Bathurst prison country central New South Wales. The view down to fortitude or optimism crossing a bridge. Motioned only by tiny no-tell internal dramas the whole way: air pressure … How stress Canomodine? New metalanguage rising off the palate. Secret ‘hints’ and ‘notes’ though good. Throw a blanket on three country pubs. Favourite among the local toponymies – Cadia … Mumbil … once gold-mining town called Lucknow. Read the rest of Overland 240 If you enjoyed this piece, buy the issue Or subscribe and receive four brilliant issues for a year Christopher Brown Christopher Brown lives in Newcastle. He is a poet and teacher, and editor of Puncher and Wattmann’s slow loris chapbook series. More by Christopher Brown 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 30 January 202330 January 2023 History On class as a product of struggle Jared Davidson An understanding of class as a relationship and a process, and the expanded terrain of class struggle that comes with it, has the potential to unearth or reappraise key events and narratives in our colonial pasts. First published in Overland Issue 228 27 January 2023 Cartoons In attacking us, they bring us together Sam Wallman 'What these bosses don't understand is that in attacking us, they bring us together.' (Paddy Crumlin, Maritime Union of Australia, Svitzer Rally November 2022)