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Alternative title: States of Mind
Issue Details: First known date: 2021... no. 72 April 2021 of Griffith Review est. 2003- Griffith Review
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'IN THE FIRST months of 2020, the vibrations of the Earth changed. As monitored by a global network of seismologists, the average daily displacement of the surface of the planet – measured in nanometres, or increments of one billionth of a metre – fell around the world, from Nepal to Barcelona to Brussels. In Enshi, in China’s Hubei province, and in New York City, average ground displacement fell to less than one nanometre from pre-pandemic levels of 3.25 nm and 1.75 nm respectively'. (Ashley Hay : Introduction) 

Notes

  • Only literary material within AustLit's scope individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes:

    mental health Lifting the iron curtain around care by Patrick McGorry

    Surviving Covid Trophy guide and walkthrough by Beau Windon

    Psychiatry and the socio-political order : Where mental health meets human rights by Neeraj S Gill

    Love and fear Towards an Australian model of psychedelic mental health by Kate Cole-Adams

    Nursing the economy Coming back from Covid by Steven Kennedy and Shane Wright

    Decolonising psychology : Why voice matters by Pat Dudgeon, Dawn Darlaston-Jones and Joanna Alexi

    The sad stats : The trauma of community law by Sam Elkin

    The chemical question Mapping the brain-biology frontier by Bianca Nogrady

    Our once and future home : Journeying with the climate pilgrims by David Ritter

    Delusions of sanity : Deconstructing madness in an insane world by Samuel Alexander

    Going sane : Creative terminologies for challenging times by Tanmoy Goswami

    The privatisation of anxiety : Wellness, self-help and the resilience doctrine by Angela Smith

Contents

* Contents derived from the 2021 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Problem of Living : Dispatches from Deep Psychiatry, Ruby Hillsmith , single work autobiography (p. 52-62)
On Surviving Survivor’s Guilt : From Bad Times to End Times, Lech Blaine , single work autobiography (p. 78-87)
Intensifieri"It’s strange that a dog barking at the beach becomes a cause for concern.", David Stavanger , single work poetry (p. 88-95)
The Closure Company, Gretchen Shirm , single work short story (p. 96-106)
The Bee Boxi"You made this;", Adam Smith , single work poetry (p. 121)
Unease and Disease : Redrawing the Boundaries of Colonial Madness, James Dunk , single work essay
'OVER THE COURSE of eight years I researched and wrote a book, Bedlam at Botany Bay, about colonial madness in Australia. I read the records generated by the projects undertaken here – endeavours at every scale, from simple survival through to the efforts of empires to mobilise labour, capital and morality. Letters scratched out by the two outsized, Crown-appointed spiders working from the stone house on the rise above the eastern shore of Warrane (Sydney Harbour) and transmitted to the buildings thrown up around the edge of the water; the second settlement at Parramatta; the outstations in contested areas; the penal stations on far-flung islands; and the lair of the hulking old beast half a world away on Downing Street. I read case notes scribbled by half-trained doctors, case law by half-trained lawyers, editorials and newsprint written in the same inflated, pompous register in which it seems that many of the better-heeled colonists prosecuted their lives. The spiders spun without cease a taut, geometric thing strung over the uneven, ungainly contours of the colony, over the actual life of the world I was working to reconstruct. Somewhere within this close web, and the stray silken threads spun silent across the water by every person with access to ink and paper and language, somewhere within and inside all this lovely, suffocating gossamer lay the monstrous and mundane matter of colonisation: a thing so ordinary anyone could do it and so special some felt called to it and so awful that it continues to poison the land and everything on it.' (Introduction)
(p. 122-131)
Embracing Ugly Feelings : Living with the Cold of the Soul, Masako Fukui , single work autobiography
'THE FIRST TIME I was hospitalised, my mother visited me in the dank psychiatric ward bearing a three-tiered lacquer bento box packed with handmade delicacies. I told her I couldn’t eat. She began to sob, and in between wet gulps, confessed that my severe depression was her fault – the cause must be the frequent soap enemas she had inflicted on me as a baby, she explained. I began to cry then too. We hugged each other. We might even have shared a subversive giggle. Later that day, I informed the psychiatrist that I’d had a cathartic breakthrough, hoping that he’d release me from the horror of the locked ward, its floors reeking of spilt urine, the walls stained with other people’s anguish.' (Introduction)
(p. 132-138)
This Her Thing : Holding on in an Age of Letting Go, Brooke Davis , single work autobiography (p. 139-144)
A Woman Alone, Alex Miller , single work short story (p. 145-158)
The Perennity of Love : In Search of Lost Connections, Vicki Laveau-Harvie , single work autobiography
'AS THE PANDEMIC begins to bite in March 2020, many people report exceptionally vivid dreams, recurring nightmares. The phenomenon is widespread enough to feature in news bulletins. Experts are interviewed' (Introduction)
(p. 167-176)
Faith and Trust and Pixie Dust : Counselling and the Creative Process, Kyle Perry , single work autobiography (p. 185-194)
Le Méridieni"8 a.m. poolside, two women rolling", Mindy Gill , single work poetry (p. 204)
The Light We Cannot Seei"We surface abruptly somewhere between", Anne Casey , single work poetry (p. 213-216)
There Is a Green Hill : The Solace of Community, Kathryn Heyman , single work autobiography (p. 217-227)
Coal and Meteri"The poet digs down a decade", A. Frances Johnson , single work poetry (p. 255)
Snake of Light, Loki Liddle , single work short story (p. 256-267)
Preparing for the Inevitable : Five States of Mind, Joshua Lobb , single work short story (p. 275-279)
Looking for Johnny Burnaway : Punk, Pain and a Family Puzzle, Joe Gorman , single work essay

An essay for the Griffith Review on punk, pain and a family puzzle. (Author's summary)

Note: Online only.

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Works about this Work

Holding on while Letting Go Brooke Davis , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 19 June 2021; (p. 18)

— Review of Griffith Review no. 72 April 2021 periodical issue
Holding on while Letting Go Brooke Davis , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 19 June 2021; (p. 18)

— Review of Griffith Review no. 72 April 2021 periodical issue
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