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'Overland was founded with dual commitments to literary quality, and to publishing and fostering diverse writers. At the Widest extremes of certain kind of argument these priorities can be placed into a false dichotomy, and made to seem mutually antagonistic, but during our first year's tenure as editors we've had the pleasure of working with brilliant writers informed by a wealth of diverging experiences. This issue proudly continues that commitment with a panoply of incisive essays of widely varying styles and subjects, the results of 2020's Judith Wright and Neilma Sidney prizes, and a selection of fiction and poetry bringing emerging voices.' (Evelyn Araluen and Jonathan Dunk: Editorial introduction)
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* Contents derived from the 2021 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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The Invisible Sea,
single work
essay
(p. 3-21)'Ridges curl like surf, plateaus sit like creme-brulee atop crumbling ledges, scraped away by greedy spoons of erosion. Untidy waterholes yawn like oysters and unravel into thirsty oxbows.. A stinging, sandy whip of river tapers into split ends. Tributaries spool out from rivers, tangling in the mountains slumped like of dogs, guarding the horizon. (Introduction)
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Libations,
single work
essay
(p. 22-24)
'TW: torture
My mother calls her arrival in Australia 'the years of hell'. In one story, she worked at the dry cleaners for an unbroken days. By happy accident, she never left. Thanks to Bob Hawke's tearful tribute, she stumbled into citizenship after 1989, the winner of a grisly scratchcard along with some forty thousand other Chinese. To this day, she votes Labor.' (Introduction)
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'A House in the Country Spells Death',
single work
essay
(p. 34-42)'The first thing Ranald Allan and his friends heard, after they passed through customs at Sydney airport, was John Forbes' booming deadpan, reciting the poem: 'Up, Up, Home & Away'. ' (Introduction)
- Border Control : Meditationsi"Were you born on a Thursday in Cleopatra", single work poetry (p. 57-58)
- Bidjigal Double Brick Dreamingi"The smell of Jasmine", single work poetry (p. 59-60)
- Book of Hoursi"this is the poem from my dream I say / office hours are a myth / publishing poems is money for", single work poetry (p. 62)
- A Brief Story about Handsi"I woke to find", single work poetry (p. 63)
- Banksiai"a black", single work poetry (p. 64)
- After Lifei"after the fact / they will position / our limbs heads and feet", single work poetry (p. 64)
- First, Do No Harmi"It will probably start with something that seems pretty reasonable,", single work poetry (p. 65)
- Customs Declarationi"Beginning our decent with a banking turn of phrase and amusement", single work poetry (p. 66)
- Conspiracy Theory Is Contemporary Genre Literaturei"1. the task isn’t to tell the truth / but to induce", single work poetry (p. 67)
- The Case of G : A Child Raised by Trains, single work short story (p. 69-72)
- Anchor Point, single work short story (p. 73-77)
- Mary Regards the Virgin, single work short story (p. 78-82)
- Why Green When Silver, single work short story (p. 83-87)
- The Wild Red Herbivore, single work short story (p. 88-93)
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