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'The exhibition has been on at the National Gallery of Victoria for months, but here I am as usual, on the final weekend, waiting with my e-ticket in a long line. If I’d had to join that ticket-buying queue in the great hall, folding over and back on itself like a giant Viennetta ice-cream cake, I would’ve turned back for home.' (Introduction)

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y Meanjin vol. 79 no. 3 Spring 2020 20192147 2020 periodical issue Abstract
'In our September edition, there's a brace of fine writing in the time of Covid-19.

'From Jack Latimore, 'Through a Mask, Breathing': an expansive, lyrical essay that couples a local response to the Black Lives Matter movement to ideas around gentrification, St Kilda, Sidney Nolan and the life and music of Archie Roach, all of it set against the quiet menace of the pandemic.

'In other pieces drawn from our Covid moment, Kate Grenville charts the troubled progress and unexpected insights of days under lockdown, Fiona Wright finds space and rare pleasures as the world closes in, Krissy Kneen takes on the sudden obsession with 'iso-weight', Justin Clemens searches for hope in the world of verse, Desmond Manderson and Lorenzo Veracini consider viruses, colonialism and other metaphors, and there's short fiction from Anson Cameron, 'The Miserable Creep of Covid'. ' (Publication introduction)
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