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237.5 Autumn Fiction | Overland literary journal
Type Editorial There are many things that come to mind when I sit down to write about these stories. The first is how great they are: that much is clear. But hovering over that is the cloud of everything that’s happened since submissions for this edition closed. Type Fiction When I was in Year 8, I occasionally went to the home of the girl I sat next to in French class.
237.5: Autumn Fiction
Type Editorial There are many things that come to mind when I sit down to write about these stories. The first is how great they are: that much is clear. But hovering over that is the cloud of everything that’s happened since submissions for this edition closed. When I began to read these submissions, the news (at least in this part of the world) was dominated by the bushfires that were devastating Australia.
The poetics of Prince
At the beginning of each semester, I ask my creative writing students what their favourite poem is. Some students can’t narrow it down to a single favourite, and the process of explaining this is a good way to get people thinking about how poems work. For other students, the answer is difficult for a different reason: they don’t know any poems.
KYDUMA Shortlist: ‘What In Me Is Dark’
All this week, Kill Your Darlings is showcasing extracts from this year’s KYD Unpublished Manuscript Award shortlist. Designed to support the development of an early-career author, the Award offer $5000 prize money and mentorship with industry professionals. The following extract comes from Allan Drew’s shortlisted manuscript, ‘What In Me is Dark’. Forced to leave plague-riddled London, the ageing, blind poet John Milton is dependent on his all-female family in the village of Chalfont-St Giles.
Indefatigable wings
In the village of Chalfont St Giles, about forty kilometres north-west of London, stands the last remaining house in which poet John Milton lived. He spent perhaps a year there in 1665, waiting out the Great Plague as it ravaged England’s capital. It is now a museum, a memorial to his prodigious production of poetry and prose – and to his canonical achievement, the epic poem Paradise Lost. My pilgrimage to Milton’s cottage began with my first experience of Paradise Lost.
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