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Issue Details: First known date: 2022... vol. 81 no. 3 September 2022 of Meanjin est. 1940 Meanjin
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

'We saw images recently that captured light from a moment 13 billion years ago. A thing of wonders. Minds turned to the deepest of time, the origins of our universe, and perhaps to that moment before the sudden creation of an infinity of something from an endless expanse of nothing. Or was that big bang the final decaying and thus creating moment of a previous infinity of something? Our minds can tiptoe around these ideas, but never quite land in a recognisable space between them. But maybe that is their beauty, the tantalising possibility of utter unknowability.' (Jonathan Green, Editorial introduction)

Notes

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

    A tale of two colonies by Osman Faruqi

    Crawl, crawl, crawl to daddy: Unpacking sexualisation of men in leadership by Lauren Rosewarne 

    Rape is Rape by Jane Gilmore

    Dating, dying, and digital connection in covid by Alex Bevan

    Riding the high horse with Deborah Levy by Anna Sublet

    Anecdotal fiction by Ned Hirst

     

Contents

* Contents derived from the 2022 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Cave Canem, Lucy Sussex , single work criticism
'Nobody wanted to be quoted, unsurprising with a literary scandal. And this particular case proved unusually good. Australia has had Malley, Khoury, Demidenko ... and now John Hughes’ The Dogs.' (Introduction)
(p. 6-8)
Here Lies, Franklyn Hudson , single work essay

'One of the most memorable lines in 'Romeo and Juliet' is when Romeo stands under Juliet's balcony and she says, 'What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.'' (Introduction)

(p. 9-10)
Whale Song, Drew Rooke , single work prose
'The cold shock is only slightly allayed by the wetsuit clinging to my body as I jump off the metal steps into the frigid ocean, but the pleasure of it trumps the pain. I take a few jagged breaths through my snorkel and feel my muscles immediately tighten as the blood in my limbs rushes from my extremities to my core. A shiver works its way from the base of my neck down my spine. There’s a splash behind me as Madhavi jumps in.' (Introduction) 
(p. 12-15)
A Very Wise Disco Ball, Kate Joy , single work prose (p. 15-16)
White Knuckles, Daniel Reeders , single work prose

'A few years ago I was diagnosed with a serious intermittent mental illness, and I made a decision not to rush to publicise it. I used that experience to write a journal article, about the queer politics of disclosure of disability, which carefully avoids saying what the diagnosis was. At a personal level, I have always had mixed feelings about 'coming out'-even though it can be politically powerful to do so, it can also mean giving into the demand to narrate how you differ from the norm. With the possible exception of young men at dance and drama schools, nobody has ever had to 'come out' as straight; white Australians are not routinely asked to tell their migration stories; abled people are not required to explain how they are socially enabled, et cetera.' (Publication abstract)

(p. 17-20)
Shower Your Love with White Flowers, Bruce Pascoe , single work essay

'Shower your love with white flowers. Drape her shoulders in wreaths of fragrance, take care to notice if a blossom nuzzles her clavicle, a drowsy bee in the flagrant magnolia flower.' (Introduction) 

(p. 21-23)
Elegyi"Wild scree of unravelling,", Natalie Rose Dyer , single work review (p. 24-25)
Australia in Three Books, Dan Dixon , single work review
— Review of Recollections of a Bleeding Heart : A Portrait of Paul Keating PM Don Watson , 2002 single work biography ; Robert Menzies' Forgotten People Judith Brett , 1992 single work biography ; The Game : A Portrait of Scott Morrison Sean Kelly , 2021 single work biography ;
(p. 26-29)
Star Ferryi"I find a copy of Robert Hayden's poems", John Kinsella , single work poetry (p. 37)
Dystopia Creep, Jennifer Mills , single work essay
'The Centre for National Resilience was an uncanny place. Rows of beige-grey dongas with small shared verandahs faced each other, a concrete strip and a bit of gravel between them. The rows were separated into sections, and the sections were separated by chainlink fencing, numbered and lettered with laminated signs. We were placed in H block. You have to laugh.' (Introduction) 
(p. 38-46)
Scissors and Clampsi"Stork scissors are the progeny of 19th-century", Jessica Wilkinson , single work poetry (p. 47)
Thought Is Free, Yu Ouyang , single work autobiography (p. 56-64)
Personal Slalomi"My daughter is born in February", Isabella G. Mead , single work poetry (p. 65)
Eleuterio Cabrera's Beautiful Game, Jordan Prosser , single work short story (p. 66-71)
Is It Just Me?, Kate Holden , single work essay

'Of course I have no right whatsoever to write down the truth about my life... but I do so urged by a necessity of truthtelling, because there is no living soul who knows the complete truth; here, may be one who knows a section; and there, one who knows another section; but to the whole picture not one is initiated.' (Introduction)

(p. 72-79)
53.720°N, 2.004°W : A Contrapunatal, Marie O'Rourke , Daniel Juckes , single work prose

'The day begins with yoghurt and muesli in a stranger's kitchen, air thick with a rare summer heatwave and my discomfort over her 'tidying' my room while I was out. A message from you: here, waiting, parked by canal. But no hurry, I'm told, you have sandwich and crisps to consume. In my windowless room at the very top of the house, I search for clothes suited to clammy air, the suggestion of rain, and a climb up Stoodley Pike.' (Introduction)

(p. 90-99)
When Rabbits Scream, Mohammed Massoud Morsi , single work autobiography (p. 100-104)
'I Catch the Pattern of Your Silence', Chelsea Watego , David Singh; , George Newhouse , Helena Kajlich , Rick Hampson , single work
'Here we tell of two stories, each similar in their demonstrations of complicity in silencing accounts of racial violence within the Australian health system. The first is a story about a medical rationalisation used to occlude the racial violence characteristic of legal processes used by families as a means of seeking redress; the second is the story of the legal rationalisation offered by a scholarly medical journal as justification for not accepting an article that charted the events of the first, thereby eliding still further Indigenous experiences of racial violence.' 

 (Introduction)

(p. 105-111)
A Little, Late, Alex Sawyer , single work short story (p. 112-116)
Bleached Paddocksi"Driving light of harvested paddocks", Brendan Ryan , single work poetry (p. 117)

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