Thread by @Toby_Fitch, I've been running a new project @OverlandJournal, publishing a poem online every [...]

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I've been running a new project @OverlandJournal, publishing a poem online every 3rd Friday—'The Friday Poem', if you will. Here's a thread of all the poems so far:

If you'd like to submit poems, please do so via the usual portal: https://overland.org.au/submit/poetry-submissions/. For the Friday Poem, I'm looking for topical and longer poems.

1. 'Chermy' by Ellen van Neerven: https://overland.org.au/2020/04/poetry-chermy/

Poetry | Chermy

Westfield Chermy is one of our sacred sites / ehh gammin! / my grandparents came to Chermy in the early 50s / they had a house on Fee St / where my mother and her siblings grew up / they moved there...

https://overland.org.au/2020/04/poetry-chermy/

2. 'The Offing' by Jaya Savige @jaya_savige: https://overland.org.au/2020/05/poetry-the-offing/

Poetry | The Offing

On the bluff, by the lookout, off the path, in the scrub, no one is coming but us. And through the coin-operated binoculars it is clear we are going for it—in the surf, on a weekday, beyond the...

https://overland.org.au/2020/05/poetry-the-offing/

3. 'Red Velvet Suite' by Rose Hunter: https://overland.org.au/2020/05/poem-red-velvet-suite/comment-page-1/

Poetry | Red Velvet Suite

CW: sexual violence.

https://overland.org.au/2020/05/poem-red-velvet-suite/comment-page-1/

4. 'Probation File: 29/1957' by Tony Birch: https://overland.org.au/2020/06/poetry-probation-file-29-1957/

Poetry | Probation file: 29/1957

https://overland.org.au/2020/06/poetry-probation-file-29-1957/

5. 'In my fortieth year, I realise I am not them' by Eileen Chong @eileenchongpoet : https://overland.org.au/2020/07/poetry-in-my-fortieth-year-i-realise-i-am-not-them/

Poetry | In my fortieth year, I realise I am not them

The moon rises above clouds— in the cold light, all is grey, and white. Night sky turns on a paper wheel.

https://overland.org.au/2020/07/poetry-in-my-fortieth-year-i-realise-i-am-not-them/

6. 'December 2019' by Sriharan Ganeshan: https://overland.org.au/2020/07/poetry-december-2019/

Poetry | December 2019

Please stop walking, and look at us/Raise your head and look at us/Raise your hands and look at us/Look at the life lost in our abode/Look at the tears our eyes have lost.

https://overland.org.au/2020/07/poetry-december-2019/

7. 'The Ordinary Poem' by Ursula Robinson-Shaw @ursulabrs : https://overland.org.au/2020/08/poetry-the-ordinary-poem/

Poetry | The ordinary poem

there is a place more real than desire as real as a train or a brick or a sarcoma, words are cleaner there, swaying whitely like feathers in warm air, where dignity whispers like silk skirts.

https://overland.org.au/2020/08/poetry-the-ordinary-poem/

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