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 25 May 2026 · The university Behind Craven’s audit Jeff Sparrow In November 2025, when antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal announced that Emeritus Professor Greg Craven would head what she called the “University Report Card Project”, the media referred to her plan as an “audit” of higher education’s response to antisemitism. It was never anything of the kind. 22 May 2026 · Friday Poetry Judas goats Caitlin Maling Because goats can climb / and cave, clamber to find cover / in the bushes of what they can’t eat / which isn’t much.
