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Issue Details: First known date: 2022... vol. 10 no. 1 2022 of Meniscus est. 2013 Meniscus
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'Of course it’s anticipatory to talk about the post-pandemic; all around the world, it seems, are reports that we have entered the post-COVID era, while locally we recognise that we might have outrun the pandemic, the disease itself still lingers. Moreover, its effects – on personal lives, on individual and national incomes, on the health and education systems which are still staggering toward recovery, and on the profoundly damaged art sector, which did so much to support wellbeing during the lockdowns – continue to frame our lives.

'The lateness of this issue of Meniscus is directly related to the COVID/ post-COVID effects; the editors have been struggling to find enough time to give proper attention to the submissions, and a number of the poems and stories included here address COVID, directly or indirectly. Other poems and stories pick up on ongoing issues of racism, climate change, gender relations, and the existential quo vadis story that is such an enduring theme in literary writing.' (Deb Wain and Jen Webb Editorial introduction)

Notes

  • Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes:

    Glass Bear by Sarah Barr

    Control and Somnambulent Corpse by Robert Beveridge

    Venus told Me by Pavel Frolov

    Blue Suspension by Ian Ganassi

    Diversion and Microwave by Oz Hardwick

    Memorial by Tom Hazuka

    Juanito and the Beanstalk by Tim Mayo

    Spire and The Invasion of the Library by David McVey

    Perhaps Something Like an Ending by Chris Muscardin

    So Says Shelley by Keith Nunes

    Tinderbox by Sarah Penwarden

    A Little Night Magic by Donna Pucciani

    You Left Without Telling by Sandip Saha

    Because of the Webs by Hibah Shabkhez

    Grandmother and Unheard by Elizabeth Smither

    Why I Stalk the Sun and The Window Poem by Jason Visconti

    Missing : for Qi Hong by Yuan Changming

Contents

* Contents derived from the 2022 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Writing from Down Underi"Australia, you say", Steph Amir , single work poetry (p. 8)
Poem to the Snaili"I see you, on your slow commute", Peter Bakowski , single work poetry (p. 9)
A Busker Asleep in the Fitzroy Gardensi"Restorative this nap in the afternoon grass,", Peter Bakowski , single work poetry (p. 10)
Parisian Dreami"We wake each other just before dawn,", Jason Beale , single work poetry (p. 13)
A Gerald Murnane Sentencei"before he left the room", Tony Beyer , single work poetry (p. 16)
Ragel Tajjeb, Vincent Brincat , single work prose (p. 17)
We Feel the Answer in Our Cells, Faye Brinsmead , single work prose (p. 18)
Lines of Flight, Faye Brinsmead , single work prose (p. 19)
Trappedi"by the form", Owen Bullock , single work poetry (p. 20-21)
Fold, Owen Bullock , single work prose (p. 22-23)
On Reaching across Timei"Is it opening a door – solid, wooden, strap-hinged?", Anne M. Carson , single work poetry (p. 24)
We Are Indoor Gardens, Lisa Collyer , single work poetry (p. 25)
Visiting Windowi"I remain behind glass", Lisa Collyer , single work poetry (p. 26)
The Timepiecei"A clock observes a heartbeat’s arrest", Lisa Collyer , single work (p. 27)
A Study of Analysis and Heartbreaki"On the fishbone tongues: mussels, white storks,", Ion Corcos , single work poetry (p. 28)
Third Person, Present Tense, Sean Crawley , single work short story (p. 29-35)
Unfinished Business, Lyn Dickens , single work short story (p. 36-46)
Remainders and Remindersi"Come half-dark I’m murmuring this", Lorraine Gibson , single work poetry (p. 51-52)
Chronicles of Hubrisi"We followed the liquid fingers of breaking", Lorraine Gibson , single work poetry (p. 53-54)
Dirti"It’s always this. What to have for dinner. The procedure for having a", 'Jackson' , single work poetry (p. 59)

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