Published in Overland Issue 243 Winter 2021 · Poetry Graphology restoration 17: name rename name ... term John Kinsella No claim in the name ‘Jam Tree Gully’ — rather, a personal and familial association of presence which is neither assertion nor acquiescence. There are jam trees. There is a gully. No names displayed on gates. Just prior to this configuration, or approximating, it was named ‘Sleepy Hollow’ by a horse person, a name which could not work for us — distant literary associations aside (the irony), it was too abstract, though there is a hollow in the valleyside, true. But then again, the name on the gate as we arrived was hung with animal skulls as well. Removed immediately. I checked with Marion Kickett about the boundaries here — this still-Ballardong boodja close to edges of Yued and Whadjuk boodjas — and we ‘name’, or maybe more accurately, ‘term’ our occupation as ‘Jam Tree Gully’ only to answer for this family’s presence, not to name over the name, not to delete true names and the language of here deep in here, not to rename, not to close off to the names the valley’s linguistics have worked with branching and layered consultation. ‘Jam Tree Gully’ doesn’t refer to a house, doesn’t refer to ways of naming, as ‘jam tree’ is only a rough approximation of ‘mungart’, not a renaming, not an alternative name, not a system of classification. Read the rest of Overland 243 If you enjoyed this piece, buy the issue Or subscribe and receive four brilliant issues for a year John Kinsella John Kinsella’s new work includes the story collection Pushing Back (Transit Lounge, 2021), Saussure's Kaleidoscope Graphology Drawing-Poems (Five Islands Press/Apothecary Archive, 2021) and The Ascension of Sheep: Collected Poems Volume 1 (UWAP, 2022). More by John Kinsella › 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 8 September 202312 September 2023 · Poetry Poetry | Games Heather Taylor-Johnson Days pinch and lately I’ve noticed every time I look in the mirror I’m squinting—maybe it’s a grimace. Without trying I’ve mastered the façade of a Besser block threatened by a mallet, by which I mean maybe the world won’t kill me but it’ll definitely hurt and I’ve got to be ready. First published in Overland Issue 228 31 August 20236 September 2023 · Poetry Verbing the apocalypse: Alison Croggon’s Rilke Josie/Jocelyn Suzanne ‘This again?’ and ‘why now? Why not years ago?’ are the two questions raised in each new translation of a non-English piece of Western Canon. There’s an understanding—of course a poetic cycle like the Duino Elegies is incomplete in English, there are endless new readings—and a simultaneous sense of wounded pride/suspicion: what was missing the last time around? What were you concealing from me? What are you concealing now?