Published in Overland Issue 253 Summer 2023/4 · Poetry

By a drowned valley estuary: three tracings

Jake Goetz

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Jake Goetz

Jake Goetz has published two collections of poetry, meditations with passing water (Rabbit, 2018) and Unplanned Encounters: Poems 2015–2020 (Apothecary Archive). His third collection, Holocene Pointbreaks, is forthcoming in 2024.

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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.