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Overland 204: Progressive Culture Since 1954

Overland, the most radical of Australias long-standing literary and cultural magazines, celebrated its 50th year in 2004. Publishing features, fiction, poetry, reviews, comment, artwork and opinion pieces, Overland is committed to engaging with important literary, cultural and political issues in contemporary Australia. It has a tradition of publishing dissenting articles with a political and cultural focus. Overland also gives a voice to the experiences that are excluded from the mainstream media and publishing outlets. The magazine has been part of an ongoing attempt to document lesser-known stories and histories, dissect media hysteria and dishonesty, debunk the populist hype of politicians, give a voice to those whose stories are otherwise marginalised, misrepresented or ignored, and point public debate in alternative directions. In the Spring Edition: 204: Richard Seymour (The Liberal Defence of Murder) on the Left ten years after 9/11 British journalist Andy Worthington on the war on terror and the assault on civil liberties journalist John Martinkus on being kidnapped by insurgents in Iraq Eve Vincent on the human face of the refugee crisis Jess Whyte on the new philosophers of a New Left Kirsten Tranter on the gender politics of China Miville and Peter Kirkpatrick on the problematic poetry of Clive James. Plus fiction by Charlotte Wood and Jacinda Woodhead, new poetry, cartoons by Judy Horacek and much more.

Overland 203

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Overland 202

The theory of WikiLeaks; the art of Shaun Tan; volunteerism and neoliberalism in literary culture; and much, much more.

Regulars

Jeff Sparrow − Editorial

Correspondence

Alison Croggon

Essays

Guy Rundle − ‘Open-eyed conspiracy his time doth take’

Wendy Bacon − Being free by acting free

Rjurik Davidson − Imagining new worlds

Bob Gosford − ‘They took our culture — now there is no law’

Alexis Wright − Talking about tomorrow

Patricia Gillespie − [In]Dignity

CAL–Connections essay: David Donaldson − Masculinity and the homosexual advance defence •

Meanland: Caroline Hamilton − The exposure economy

Focus

Shaun Tan

Poetry Prize •

Peter Minter − Judge’s report

K A Nelson − Chorus of crows

Fiction

Kalinda Ashton − Simpler than that

Helen Dinmore − Unplugged

Clare Strahan − Finders keepers

Poetry

Jennifer Compton − I Came Home with the Shopping

Jane Gibian − tidemark

John Kinsella − Survey

Davide Angelo − Untitled

Stuart Cooke − Ash-brie’s Old Blue

Kevin Gillam − the purpling

Michael Farrell − The Influence of Lorca in the Outback

Reviews

Justin Clemens – Being caught dead

Cover

Shaun Tan − detail from The Reader, 2010

Overland 201

Afghanistan, liberalism and bigotry; creativity and labour; the art of drawing money; and much, much more.

Overland 200

Special anniversary edition: politics of Noel Pearson; gender, capitalism, anorexia; new fiction by Tsiolkas, Hospital and Hitchcock; collaborative poem and much, much more.

Overland 199 (Winter 2010)

Book pirates, the pros and cons of the Greens, Paul Kelly’s insider histories, raising funds for the NLF, Cate Kennedy on disconnecting for creativity, and much more.

Contents

Rjurik Davidson − Editorial

Correspondence

Towards 200: Sean Scalmer and Jackie Dickenson − The march of the insider
CAL—Art and Life: Zanny Begg − I don’t know much about revolution but I know what I like *
Meanland: Emmett Stinson − The pirate code

Essays

Cate Kennedy − Driven to distraction
Tad Tietze − The Greens, the crisis and the Left
Thomas Caldwell − Some of the finest films
Seb Prowse − Political treasures
Andrew McCann − The eventfulness of Roberto Bolaño
John McLaren − The forest and its undergrowth

Poetry Prize

Keri Glastonbury − Networked communities
Derek Motion − forest hill
Duncan Motion − SOUTHWEST | lyrebird

Fiction

Carmel Bird − Waiting for the green man
A S Patric − Beckett & Son

Reviews

Pam Brown − Villain, Views of the Hudson, Beautiful Waste, Wimmera
Tom Clark − Bendable Learnings

Poetry

Cameron Fuller − There’s a bomb on this train of thought
Sue Watson − Brush turkey’s
J K Murphy − Valley gutter
John Kinsella − Resurrection Plants at Nookaminnie Rock
π.o. − Gerry Gee / Ron Blaskett
Adam Ford − Salt
Josephine Rowe − The Man Who Shot Lions
Amanda Surrey − the great ocean road

Cover - Zanny Begg

Overland 198 Autumn 2010

Mungo on refugees, reading in an age of change, life on death row, a postcard to the next Left, and much more.

Overland 197

Rundle on Rudd, the deplorable career of Nick Cave, the art of video gaming, opera under occupation and much, much more.

Overland 196

Tsiolkas on The Slap, the whiteness of beauty, spying for ASIO, Melbourne re-mixed and much, much more.

CONTENTS

Jeff Sparrow − Editorial

FEATURES

Christos Tsiolkas − The Slap 1.0
Maxine Clarke − The unbearable whiteness of beauty
Rodney Hall − Copyright, the market and the survival of Aust Lit
Dennis Altman − Escaping the tribe?
Bob Brown − The will of the people
Jenny Hocking − The election that never was
Carmela Baranowska − ‘Why are you still alive?’
Thomas Shepherd − A life in mirrors
Tara June Winch − Picture of a Shell-shocked land

MELBOURNE FUTURES FICTION

Margo Lanagan − Until the solid earth dissolves
Andrew Morgan − Heart of dockness
Jack Dann − Mohammed’s angel
Lucy Sussex − Riot on the State Library lawn

POETRY

Cassandra O’Loughlin − Nourishment
Desh Balasubramaniam − North − East Anthem
Elena Knox − Salacia
Tanja Kovac − Cultural Cringe
Paul Mitchell − Second Marriage
Debbie Lim − Taking Blood
Bonny Cassidy − Lining space, drying time
π.o. − Ned Kelly
Joel Scott − Four Heads, Morocco
Eddie Paterson − Blood on the tracks
Qi Guo, translated by Ouyang Yu − Mid Autumn
Kevin Gillam − small religion

REVIEWS

Tom Clark - Journey Without Arrival
Bel Monypenny - The Red Highway
John McLaren - 60 Classic Australian Poems
Laurie Clancy - Doing Life: A Biography of Elizabeth Jolley
Lyndon Megarrity - The Dreaming and Other Essays

Overland 195

Germaine Greer on Kevin Rudd, things fall apart in Afghanistan, writers against climate change, and much more.

CONTENTS
REGULARS Jeff Sparrow - Editorial
ESSAYS Germaine Greer – Waiting in vain John Martinkus – Things fall apart Clare Wright – A lover and a fighter Andrew Macrae – Alternative worlds Lihong Su – Wong Da-niang Myke Bartlett – The sounds of silence Hugo Race – Four scenes with Mario Merola Subhash Jaireth – Waiting for Stalin Laurie Hergenhan – Behind the scenes with Xavier Herbert Susan Lever & Ken Gelder – Empty celebration?
FOCUS: WRITERS AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE David Spratt – Unstoppable fury Sharon Beder - Industry conjurers Tim Lambert - An inconvenient blog
FICTION Miranda Siemienowicz – Penthouse Kristel Thornell - Cabin fever Laurie Clancy - Eleven things I know about my brother
ONLINE FICTION SUPPLEMENT Andrew Fuhrmann – Lucent fruit [PDF version]
REVIEWS Tali Lavi – Journals Heather Taylor Johnson – Poetry
JUDITH WRIGHT POETRY PRIZE Sarah-Jane Norman – Eurycleia (iv) Astrid Lorange – you dropped the tea tray
POETRY Pam Brown – No worries Nathan Curnow – Miasmas - Fumigation Thomas Lee – Plateau Graham Rowlands – Reading this, reading that Peter O’Mara - the awful rowing towards God Briohny Doyle - Without events//

Overland 194

Ellis on Rudd, Connell on crisis, the year ahead in publishing, the end of the neoliberal self and much, much more.

CONTENTS
Jeff Sparrow - Editorial
FEATURES
Bob Ellis – Muscular timidity
Raewyn Connell – All that is solid melts into air
Louise Swinn – ‘Something other than outrageously unlikely’
Dave Hoskin – ‘Micro-budget Aussie flick makes no money’
Mark Furlong – Crying to be heard
Ouyang Yu – Lower downs, rubbish and low poetry
Tom O’Lincoln – ‘Kill or be killed’

CORRESPONDENCE
Laurie Hergenhan – Red Stead?
Clive Morton – Japan and espionage: the debate continues
Bob Wurth – Muddled facts
Kris Hemensley – Campbell versus Kinsella

FICTION
Cate Kennedy – Five dollar family
Jennifer Mills – Extra time
David Wolstencroft – The terrorist

JUDITH WRIGHT POETRY PRIZE
Keri Glastonbury – Judge’s report
Tim Wright – emoticon

POETRY Barrett Reid Annual Award for Poetry
Berndt Sellheim – Valentine
Ed Wright – Long Distance Calling
Michael Farrell – Veer
Adam Aitken – Discoveries Made Collecting Botanic Samples
Jessica Tyrell – pencil on sound
Michelle Cahill – Sarasvati′s Scribe – Enough
Stuart Cooke – The Pandanus Visible
Tom Clark – Australia’s Biggest Loser
Chris Brown – northern line (the blue one)
Belle Ling – Tender Disturbance
Trisha Pender – Using Shite Gifts for Academics

REVIEWS
Kalinda Ashton – Forms of hunger and hysteria: recent Australian fiction
Mungo MacCallum – There’s something about Gough (1)
Carmen Lawrence – There’s something about Gough (2)
Lyndall Ryan – Affectionate intensity
Brendan O’Reilly – Past the gatekeepers
Delia Allen – Narratives of exile
Kerry Leves – Caught in the melee we look for signals: new poetry

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Overland 190

Oz lit for and against the market, the peril and promise of electronic publishing, John Howard as poet, Hamilton contra O’Lincoln.

Overland 191

The meaning of the Rudd revolution, the history of short histories, why kids hate Australia’s past and what happens to superheroes in the mainstream.

Overland 192

Peter Craven versus Ken Gelder, music in the desert, boxing in NYC, the return of terrorism in literature, Christina Stead as communist.

Overland 193

Oil, war and the necessity for dissent, why we don’t know anything about the war in Afghanistan, Oodgeroo versus the NT intervention and much more.