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Issue Details: First known date: 2023... vol. 82 no. 4 December 2023 of Meanjin est. 1940 Meanjin
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'Art and fiction is our focus this season: let’s lift our gaze, feed our spirits and gather our strengths.

'Because this year has tested us. It has opened our eyes, it has broken our hearts and it has exhausted us. Truth and lie, courage and cowardice, pride and shame. And the new lows we have seen this year, so far beneath shame that we shudder to comprehend... Systematically lying for deliberately cruel impact, and then crowing with impunity. The horrors of wars with genocidal intent. The violence of unrelenting colonisation.' (Editorial introduction)

Notes

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

    Yulendj Boonwurrung by Carolyn Briggs  

    Defying racism with love and care by Thomas Mayo

    The thylacine icon by K.M. Kruimink

    Lowering the cost of courage by Kieran Pender

    The giving and taking away of voice: What art can do /what it can't by Heather Taylor Johnson

    Cryptic, quick, anagrammatic by David Astle

    Review of: The Racial Politics of Australian Multiculturalism by Daniel Nour

    Review of: A Horse at Night: On Writing by Amina Cain 

    Review  of: The Fifth Wound, by Aurora Mattia, Nightboat Books; Never Angeline North Rainbear!!!!!!!!!, Apocalypse Party by Mira Schlosberg

       

Contents

* Contents derived from the 2023 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Goodness of Their Hearts Authors, Mykaela Saunders , single work short story (p. 34-38)
Clocking Starsi"Why does it stand", Susan Fealy , single work poetry (p. 39)
Australia in Three Books : I, Memoir, Amy Gray , single work review
— Review of Blueberries Ellena Savage , 2020 selected work prose ; My Place Sally Morgan , 1987 single work autobiography ;
'I have a story. It will tell you something about me. You may already know me from That Thing or That Event, which I'm now using as a return to writing. That thing about me? It's sad. I will try to connect it to a broader social statement, perhaps something trite that can be laid over a nice pastel sunset for your grid, but mainly the only thing new about it is the chance to squint into another person's life before you find the next hit.' (Publication abstract)
 (p. 40-43)
On Criticism, Jane Howard , single work essay
‘ The great weakness of criticism in Australia is that it is not in itself a profession. Journalism is a profession. But to be a critic is to write a column in one’s spare time.’
 (p. 44-50)
Window Birdsi"The house where birds fly into windows", Mark O'Flynn , single work poetry (p. 51)
Quiet, Sevana Ohandjanian , single work prose (p. 52-54)
Iso, Greg Foyster , single work short story (p. 55-60)
A Short Tale of an Empire with No Clothesi"Screen: a partition, possibly from the Germanic", Ion Corcos , single work poetry (p. 61)
Thank You for Screaming, Ellena Savage , single work autobiography (p. 63-69)
How Do We Kin? : A Manifesto for These Unprecedented Climes, Kinonymous , single work prose

'We live in precarious times.

'We inherit the legacy and deep knowing of kinship in the context of First Nations survival; we learn to listen to the ancestors of this land and the cultural practices that demonstrate so elegantly how everything is connected in a constant state of becoming.' (Introduction)

 (p. 70-71)
When Love Trots Towards Us as a Truffle Pigi"she will not wait for us to be ready.", Shastra Deo , single work poetry (p. 82-83)
John Kinsella, single work interview
'Hello, John, and thanks so much for taking part in this interview. As a long-time contributor to Meanjin across many forms—from poetry to essays and fiction—it’s wonderful to be able to delve into your work more deeply. I’d like to begin by asking how you see the role of literature in activism. You’ve described yourself as an anarchist, a pacifist, and an environmentalist. From your perspective, is the poem an inherently political object?' 

(Introduction)

 (p. 85-90)
Native Bear, Lucas Smith , single work poetry (p. 91)
Twelve-step Alphabet, Paddy O'Reilly , single work short story (p. 92-96)
Homecomingi"My ba stands in our kitchen. The thwack of", Tina Huang , single work poetry (p. 97)
A Woman of Nineveh, Jumaana Abdu , single work short story (p. 98-103)
Lelda Sunday Reed, Maudie Palmer , single work biography
'As the inaugural director of Heide Park and Art Gallery, I knew Sunday and John Reed along with many of the artists who are now collectively called the Heide Circle. Sunday and John had lived at Heide for almost fifty years when we started the task of turning Heide II, the property and house they had sold to the State of Victoria, into a public museum.' 

(Introduction)

 (p. 105-112)
Firesi"We don’t have any bears in Australia", Glenn Mcpherson , single work poetry (p. 113-115)
The Station, Angela Meyer , single work short story (p. 116-129)
911 Lonely : Call Me Call Me Call Me, Declan Fry , single work essay
'Writing about Paul B Preciado in 'General Intellects' (2017), McKenzie Wark once provided a kind of intellectual summa of her preferred mode of thinking and living: a public toilet, a man who hands her a pirate translation (made by a 'nasty street queen') of Foucault's works, promising it will change her life.' (Publication abstract) 
 (p. 132-142)
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