'Jim Davidson, the second editor of
Meanjin, introduces his book
Emperors in Lilliput
by noting that, while ‘there’s nothing so dead as last week’s newspapers’, literary
journals are different. You ‘may have picked up an old one, lying in a corner, and
been surprised by its quality’ (p. vii). The contents of a newspaper last a week at most,
but the contents of a literary journal can be timeless.'
(Introduction)