Published in Overland Issue 253 Summer 2023/4 · Poetry By a drowned valley estuary: three tracings Jake Goetz 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. More by Jake Goetz › 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 5 November 2025 · Poetry Force posture agreement Miroslav Sandev The men of Darwin have all taken their rottweilers / out for a walk at the same time. / For our protection. Like Pine Gap: / all those big white eyes that scan / the darkening horizon. / The eyes stay woke, so that we may sleep. / Or so they say. 1 22 August 202522 August 2025 · Poetry starmight K.A Ren Wyld Ending genocide and apartheid is the story. Palestinian liberation is the story. / Aboriginal rights is the story. Truth, justice, treaties and land back is the story. / Global Indigenous peoples’ solidarity and joy is the story. Kinship is the story.
