Published in Overland Issue 202 Autumn 2011 · Main Posts / Writing tidemark Jane Gibian you begin here: part of a distant beach missing its home, a doll’s saucerful of the cleanest sand sleeping in your ear grown into something with glairy edges, a tidemark advancing and receding less with the disintegration of arctic sea ice affirmed when you accidentally cut the pale baby capsicum forming inside its dark red mother, the centre of a world to turn around: beneath the surface dark rocks loom in the glassy water, further out, mutable peaks of white froth tease your eyes with dolphins where you end: that part of the beach pining for home, and at the centre an instrumental continuo around which all other voices circle and rub Jane Gibian Jane Gibian is a poet and librarian whose new collection of poetry, Beneath the Tree Line, will be published by Giramondo in 2021. More by Jane Gibian 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 3 First published in Overland Issue 228 26 May 20238 June 2023 · Writing garramilla/Darwin Lulu Houdini We sit in East Point Reserve and look at how the gidjaas, green ants, make globe-like homes out of the leaves — connected edges with fibrous tissue that I later learn is faithful silk. Safe inside. Why isn’t it safe outside? I pick up the plastic around this circular lake cause this is the way […] First published in Overland Issue 228 25 May 202326 May 2023 · Main Posts The ‘Chinese question’ and colonial capitalism in New Gold Mountain Christy Tan SBS’s New Gold Mountain sets out to recover the history of the Gold Rush from the marginalised perspective of Chinese settlers but instead reinforces the erasure of Indigenous sovereignty. Although celebrated for its multilingual script and diverse representation, the mini-TV series ignores how the settlement of Chinese migrants and their recruitment into colonial capitalism consolidates the ongoing displacement of First Nations peoples.
