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