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Aug 13, 2024 | 
islandmag.com | Ouyang Yu
A book is a suicide postponed. EM Cioran By the same knowing poison. Laura (Riding) Jackson While living, when dead. Thomas Hardy teach yourself to fold & fold another day may find you fitting neater into it Jordie Albiston It’s 7.30am. Dark, becoming light. Lighter.
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
meanjin.com.au | Ouyang Yu
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Oct 4, 2023 | 
overland.org.au | Ouyang Yu |Heather Taylor-Johnson
Let me plunge into the story-essay straight away without any preambles. I’ll make it easy, in fact so easy that any perpetual linguistic ignoramuses will understand it immediately without having to pay a single cent, for a free lesson to be had. 1. 兵. 2. This is a Chinese character, pronounced ‘bing’, meaning ‘soldier’ or ‘soldiers’. 3. It consists of two parts: 丘and八, which is why soldiers are commonly known in the past, derogatorily, as丘八, pronounced ‘qiuba.’4.
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Jul 12, 2023 | 
overland.org.au | Ouyang Yu |Jason Gray
Poetry, like air, exists everywhere, particularly when it comes to findable material in a plethora of things ranging from books of fiction or nonfiction, memoirs, biographies or autobiographies, history books, books of philosophy, diaries, books of letters, newspaper articles, remarks made by people online, including social media platforms such as FB, Twitter, IG, and WeChat, particular WeChat, and even emails, all, in my opinion, instant trash that contains gold only an appreciative eye...
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Jun 29, 2023 | 
overland.org.au | Lesh Karan |Jason Gray |Ouyang Yu
she existed in masks: lorikeets loudest in the mornings, leaves deliberating on a breezy day, blinds fluttering against the sill, the hum of conversation on the footpath by her window, Fleetwood Mac, her fingers on the keyboard (tippity-tap), her anxious dog’s paws pattering on the floorboards, her husband’s snoring at 3am, the off-and-on whir of the coffee machine, cafes cackling like campfire, firetruck sirens every 43-degree day. maybe silence doesn’t exist she thinks.
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May 15, 2023 | 
overland.org.au | Jini Maxwell |Ouyang Yu |Ender Başkan
With apologies to Mary Oliver Today my laptop registers like an organ like I can feel it, even from the other side of the house I should find my own rotten way back to some kind of mindfulness practice I should open the windows of my dark room I should read more of the works of celebrated poet Mary Oliver she wrote about geese—which is huge but I hate poems that offer me forgiveness for all the shitty indignities of being alive Feeling bad and watching YouTube about it is a human right I will...
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Mar 2, 2023 | 
overland.org.au | Alan Fyfe |John Kinsella |Ouyang Yu
You feel the ancient cobblestones under your work boots, steel toe for kicking evil away. In the dripping, humid passage, you see a flicker of red and white. A mushroom speaks, Thank you, Mario, but our princess is in another castle. A week ago, you were a plumber. Your hero’s journey was only the smile a frustrated burgher offered when the pipes ran clear. Home on time to eat a warm dinner in front of the news. Weekend with the phone off for clean hands on a Sunday.
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Feb 24, 2023 | 
overland.org.au | Ouyang Yu
Established in 2007 and supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, the Overland Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize seeks outstanding original short fiction of up to 3000 words themed loosely around the notion of ‘travel’. This year’s judges, Laura Elvery, Paige Clark and Michael Winkler, selected a shortlist of eight pieces from over 400 entries. They then chose a winning piece from this shortlist, as well as two runners-up.
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Feb 24, 2023 | 
overland.org.au | Ouyang Yu
Established in 2007 and supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize seeks outstanding poetry from new and emerging writers. This year’s judges, Pam Brown, Toby Fitch and Lachlan Brown, selected a shortlist of eight poems from over 700 entries. They then chose three outstanding poems to place first, second and third in this year’s prize.
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Feb 16, 2023 | 
overland.org.au | Ouyang Yu
I grew up in a small town by the Yangtze. Because my father knew English and had taught me since I was a young child, I was able to speak my first English words by the time I was in Grade 4 of a primary school in Huangzhou at the age of eleven, in 1966, when the Cultural Revolution began.
