y separately published work icon Meanjin periodical issue  
Issue Details: First known date: 2023... vol. 82 no. 2 Winter 2023 of Meanjin est. 1940 Meanjin
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

AbstractHistoryArchive Description

'Meanjin Winter 2023 marks a new direction for the journal. It's the first edition to reframe The Meanjin Paper as a piece by a First Nations Elder that greets us the moment we sit down to read. It's the first to introduce new sections that assess the state of the nation, welcome experiments, and cast a long gaze across one particular field. And it's the first by new designer Stephen Banham, the internationally renowned typographer who has dedicated his career to creating a distinctly Australian graphic design language.' 

(Publication summary)

Notes

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

    Journalism and the Referendum by Dan Bourchier

    Stayin’ Alive by Jasper Peach

    Prised Wide Shut by Jo Dyer

    –ZOOM–a talking mirror by Alex Selenitsch

    The Longing for Belonging May Ngo

    In the Developing Solution by Jonno Revanche

    Only the Cry Remains by Alex Gerrans

    We are hoping Australians will vote ‘Yes’ by Marcia Langton

    The Politics of Home by Rachel Goldlust 

    Why does Elon Musk, the largest clown in the clown car, simply not eat the other clowns? by Patrick Lenton

    Beyond the Governance Gaps by Kate Larsen

    I went for a walk and saw my own dystopian art by Catherine Ryan

    The Graceful Incoming of a Revolution’ by Tom McIlroy

    Money Shot: Golf and Public Land by Briohny Doyle

    Australia beyond the Crown by Craig Foster 

    Not talking about typography in 2022 by Stephen Banham

Contents

* Contents derived from the 2023 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Makunschan, Meeanjan, Miganchan, Meanjan, Magandjin, Gaja Kerry Charlton , single work criticism

'The invitation to write for the Meanjin magazine is welcomed in the spirit of Reconciliation and Truth-telling. I share from my Goori doogal (Aboriginal heart) about my family and tribes, culture and history with colonisation; our Wularanguru historical language mapping project; and of matters still to be resolved, including the original language placenames. ‘Brisbane, port, the capital of Queensland, Australia and the country’s third largest city. It lies astride the Brisbane River on the southern slopes of the Taylor Range, 12 miles (19 km) above the river’s mouth at Moreton Bay.’(Introduction)

Groundwater, Deborah Wardle , single work autobiography
My Year as a Salaried Artist, Jennifer Mills , single work autobiography

'Late in 2021, I attended a conference in Tarntanya (Adelaide) organised by a collective of thinkers called Reset Arts and Culture. I listened particularly closely to a panel about labour and the arts that was chaired by Vitalstatistix director Emma Webb. I’d been writing about these issues, and against the backdrop of the ongoing pandemic, discussions had taken on a new urgency.' (Introduction)

Foot Notes, Melanie Pryor , single work autobiography

'A few days before I flew from Australia to travel alone through Scotland for three months, my eye caught on a book behind the counter of a book shop: Landmarks by the British nature writer Robert Macfarlane. The blue-and-white cover looked like a wood cut. I asked the assistant for the book, and opened it to a glossary of words under the title ‘Lights, Hazes, Mists and Fogs’. I mouthed the words listed there: brim’skud, from Shetland, was the smoke-like haze that rises from breaking waves. Maril’d, also from Shetland, described the sparkling luminous substance seen in the sea on autumn nights, and on fish in the dark. The contents page of the book was divided into regions such as ‘Flatlands’, ‘Waterlands’ and ‘Coastlands’, and each section was followed by a glossary of place-terms for weather, landscape and nature gathered from Norn and Old English, Anglo-Romani and Cornish, Welsh, Irish, Gaelic and the Orcadian, Shetlandic and Doric dialects of Scots.' (Introduction)

I Named Her Naturally because I Love Castles, Dan Hogan , single work short story
Picture of a Peanut Gallery, Mohammed Massoud Morsi , single work short story
The Cleaner, Lisa Nan Joo , single work short story
Untold Histories : The Last Days of Major Sir Thomas Mitchell, Belinda Paxton , single work short story
Maxine Beneba Clarke, single work interview
Justine & Jacquie and Their Adventures on the Other Side (An Excerpt), Jason Barker , Justin Clemens , single work prose
OUTtakes Nine to Thirty-eight, Cynthia Troup , single work prose
Australia in Three Books, Julianne Schultz , single work review
— Review of Seven Versions of an Australian Badland Ross Gibson , 2002 single work prose ; Drawing the Global Colour Line : White Men’s Countries and the Question of Racial Equality Henry Reynolds , Marilyn Lake , 2008 single work non-fiction ;

'Reducing my Australia to just three books makes me feel like someone panning for gold in a fast-moving stream filled with the precious metal. If I stand still long enough and shake the pan hard enough, surely just three exceptional nuggets will be left. It’s fair to say that I have a privileged perspective.' (Introduction) 

Seismic Shifts, Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn , single work review
— Review of Childhood : A Memoir Shannon Burns , 2022 single work autobiography ;

'Childhood is a formative experience. And reading can be a transformative experience; between the lines and shelves of books there are spaces to inhabit and new ways to metamorphose. I found myself thinking about the contours of these experiences while reading Shannon Burns’ Childhood, which felt invigorating and courageous, at times breathtaking in the execution. Burns has the past interacting with the present with graceful uncertainty, tracing rifts and voids in memory. Often in life-writing there is a sense of mining the past, processing and refining its contents into a narrative that seems irrevocable and crystal-clear, leading to conclusions that point to redemption. Instead, many of the events detailed in Childhood remain uncertain due to the nature of their origin.' (Introduction)

Opaque Gems, Ellen O'Brien , single work review
— Review of Homecoming Elfie Shiosaki , 2021 selected work poetry prose ;

'Something has been bugging me lately, like a seed stuck in my teeth. In a review of Amy Thunig’s Tell Me Again for this same publication, I considered the memoir alongside my own doubts about the utility of exposure: what compromises do I make to be seen, and how much control do I really have over whether I am seen or merely watched?' (Introduction)

An Elegant Revenge : Language at Play, Lur Alghurabi , single work essay

'I try to interrogate my reader bias as often as I can; the questionable motives behind my rage or comfort when reading, how hard and how often I project my own life onto the protagonist, and sometimes even, to my own shame, onto the author. And I wonder how often I am so hungry to read something that does my feelings and my experience justice (knowing full well I’m the only one who can write that), that I start to be frustrated when a book fails to do so. I suppose I’m still working on my book, and a great way to procrastinate is to think about how other people are writing their own books, and all the things they should have done differently. It’s been a safe and reliable distraction. I’m not above it.' (Introduction)

Is the Literary Industry Even Worth Saving?, Matilda Dixon-Smith , single work essay

'This year I reach an important milestone: ten years working in the literary industry. In 2013 I entered my first ‘real’ lit job, as an editorial assistant at a small magazine publisher in North Melbourne. I had worked as an intern at two other publishing companies during my master’s, but this was the first time I would actually be paid for what I had studied for five years to do—really, as a voracious reader and writer, for my whole life.' (Introduction)

Greedyi"I come from a long line of salt water women—", Kirli Saunders , single work poetry
Reading Blanchot at Neutral Bayi"No shit we’re off low slung a car that sings", Kevin Hart , single work poetry
Smoke and Mirrorsi"That worst of summers,", Stephen Edgar , single work poetry
Citronella, Ella Ferris , single work

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

Magazine Review : Meanjin Winter 2023, Edited by Esther Anatolitis Erich Mayer , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , July 2023;

— Review of Meanjin vol. 82 no. 2 Winter 2023 periodical issue

'The intensity of this edition creates a real sense of urgency in the reader.'

Magazine Review : Meanjin Winter 2023, Edited by Esther Anatolitis Erich Mayer , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , July 2023;

— Review of Meanjin vol. 82 no. 2 Winter 2023 periodical issue

'The intensity of this edition creates a real sense of urgency in the reader.'

Last amended 2 Aug 2023 13:00:44
Newspapers:
    Powered by Trove
    X