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Alternative title: Health
Issue Details: First known date: 2020... no. 239 Winter 2020 of Overland est. 1954 Overland
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 2020 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
On Hospitals, Vanamali Hermans , single work essay

'Frantz Fanon spent much of his life in hospitals, as a worker, writer, and patient. Much of Fanon’s work examined hospitals as institutions of social control, medicalising criminality, and exercising colonial powers. To Fanon, ‘colonialism in its essence was already taking on the aspect of a fertile purveyor for psychiatric hospitals’ –­ creating the social conditions that enabled the diagnosis of psychiatric disorders, and in turn, the need for institutions capable of housing and controlling the ‘sick’.' (Introduction)

(p. 3-7)
A Haunting on the Wardi"Antiseptic rips nose, hangs heavy on the senses", Vanamali Hermans , single work poetry (p. 7-8)
In the Dark Place, Alice Whitmore , single work essay

'December 22. Nothing but ravens in the sky. The winter solstice, my second of the year, is drawing us into the heart of a great mist. Two winters, like two long swimming pools. Not quite interminable, but there is a moment midway when the flags are lost, and there is a panicked intake of breath as the feet try for the bottom but the lungs know they won’t reach. Summer in Melbourne is at its fullest, ripest swell.' (Introduction)

(p. 21-32)
The Appointed Season, Chloe Adams , single work prose

'When we arrive at the house, my parents aren't yet home. We are here as a couple for the first time, Tris and me. Anticipation heavy upon my shoulders.' (Introduction)

(p. 33-38)
Behrouz Boochani and the Penal Archipelago, Dashiell Moore , single work essay

'A writer. A great Australian writer', Richard Flanagan writes in the foreword to Behrouz Boochani's No Friend But the Mountains (2018, Picador). In a comment designed to spark public conversation regarding Australia's ethical obligation to the incarcerated immigrants on islands inside and outside our coastline, Flanagan puts into play the tenuous category of the 'Australian writer'. Boochani's incorporation into Australia's literary community, enunciates a paradoxical idea of nationhood, one that is flexible, discursive, and open: all the qualities that our politicians oppose. Leaving aside the probability that the writer may not wish to associate himself with Australia in future, Flanagan hypothesises that the national borders policed by Peter Dutton can be discursively reoriented in light of Boochani's contribution. The irony underlying Flanagan's inclusion of Boochani thereby prompts a review of what constitutes a national literary community.' (From introduction)

(p. 49-59)
Black Childi"Black child —", Jeanine Leane , single work poetry (p. 61)
Superpositioni"Too many blacks goin around, thinkin they own the place", Grace Lucas-Pennington , single work poetry (p. 62-63)
Cottontalei"when i read at sappho’s", Joanne Burns , single work poetry (p. 64)
Eulogy for Hasani"My grief wakes up and phones a small town in Turkey. My grief accepts bribes", Alan Fyfe , single work poetry (p. 64)
Two Monitorsi"two monitors", Zoe Kingsley , single work poetry (p. 65)
Below the Linei"Once off the ship from sector blah blah", Jaya Savige , single work poetry (p. 66)
Oceani"Remember when you wrote that poem? On the first line you levered two ideas in five words.", Alan Fyfe , single work poetry (p. 67)
Devoniani"In the hours of the tide’s chill retreat", Penelope Layland , single work poetry (p. 68)
Hand as Whalei"Over a table-surface", Jocelyn Deane , single work poetry (p. 68)
Tempest Prognosticatori"The storm glass agrees", Penelope Layland , single work poetry (p. 69)
A Matter of Livesi"murder reduced", Tony Birch , single work poetry (p. 69)
Cockatooi"We stop the Subaru in a town west of the Dividing Range", Philip Neilsen , single work poetry (p. 70)
Interview with a Granite Boulder, Kirsten Parris , single work prose (p. 71-74)
Alexandria, Oliver Wakelin , single work short story (p. 75-79)
A Murmur of Resistance, Freya Cox , single work short story (p. 82-86)
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