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Issue Details: First known date: 2024... vol. 83 no. 4 Summer 2024 of Meanjin est. 1940 Meanjin
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'The power of the artist has never been more crucial to our future—nor more imperilled. When mercenary technologies are deployed against writers, cultural practice is reduced to consumption, human creativity to generative ‘artificial intelligence’, and new work to ‘content’. ‘Literature and art, poetry and drama do not spring into being at the word of command,’ wrote Founding Editor Clem Christesen in our very first editorial. ‘Their life is a continuous process of growing within itself, and its suppression is death.’ Since 1940, Meanjin has proudly championed the work of writers and artists. Every editor has taken an uncompromising stand on the public value of this work, and Meanjin 83.4 Summer 2024 is no different. We move through Ambelin Kwaymullina’s knowledge systems. Find Ben Walter’s remote. Sit down with Gerald Murnane. Greet new life with Leni Shilton. Reimagine George Williams’s university. Impose a new inconvenience on Ella Mittas. Throw down Nicholas Pickard’s gauntlet. Ask Rose Harriman’s powerful question. Our reading begins with Joe Geia’s Carumba Institute Meanjin Oration: Uncle shows us that while culture evolves across millennia, it’s how we respect it today that counts—because it’s artists who keep the voice alive.' (Publication summary)

Contents

* Contents derived from the 2024 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Sing for the Black : From the Act to Treaty, Joe Geia , single work essay
'My story is a story of challenge, success, sadness, joy, ongoing struggle and love. My show From Rations to Wages to Treaty is a curated story of song and images that speak to the experiences of many Indigenous people, focusing on those who have shown strength and given inspiration, so that all our stories can continue. From Rations to Wages to Treaty documents and sings these eras and what occurred and continues to occur for Indigenous peoples during these times. It has also become the template for my PhD thesis.' (Introduction)
A White Horse Biting the Sky, Bethany Lalor , single work short story
Severine Sees, Indigo Bailey , single work short story
Hazard Lights, Zoe Bradley , single work short story
Et in Arcadia Ego, Sunÿuna Sun , single work short story
The Maze, John Kinsella , single work short story
‘All Colour and Light’ : An Interview with Gerald Murnane, Eli McLean (interviewer), single work interview

'This conversation took place between Gerald Murnane and Meanjin‘s Production Editor Eli McLean on 2 August 2024 in Goroke, Victoria. It has been edited for clarity.'

A Landscape of Inconvenience, Ella Mittas , single work essay
A Donor Story, Jackson C. Payne , single work essay
Australia in Three Books, Shakira Hussein , single work review
— Review of A First Place : The Mapping of a World David Malouf , 1985 single work prose ; Edenglassie Melissa Lucashenko , 2023 single work novel ; Book Review : Personal Score, Ellen Van Neerven Dorcas Maphakela , 2023 single work review ;
'The books I have selected are all connected to Meanjin—the location, not the literary journal. This is familiar territory for me: I grew up slightly north of Meanjin/Brisbane, on the stolen lands of the Kabi Kabi people in the hinterland of the area now known as the Sunshine Coast. It was an overwhelmingly white community in which a brown child with an ‘unusual’ name stood out like a sore thumb. ‘Greek? Italian? A little bit of Aboriginal?’ one of the town worthies asked.' (Introduction) 
The Voyage Out, Isabella Gullifer-Laurie , single work review
— Review of Strangers at the Port Lauren Aimee Curtis , 2023 single work novel ;
'The horizon line belongs to the meeting point between the Tyrrhenian Sea and the sky. Wood smoke moves through branches, chalky rock crumbles underfoot, brine and salt scent the breeze. Churning up currents, the well-known winds of the region sweep through caper bushes and carob trees to the valley, over which grapevines grow in abundance along with prickly pears.' (Introduction) 
The Year in Poetry, Graham Akhurst , Shastra Deo , single work column
Seven Snakes, Carrie Tiffany , single work essay
Where’s the Remote?, Ben Walter , single work essay
Tales from the Crip/The Power to Keep the Stars Apart, Jasper Peach , single work essay
Indigenous Futurisms and AI, Ambelin Kwaymullina , single work essay
Country Centred Metaphors/rocketsi"They named a brick after my father", Nathan Sentance , single work poetry
Returning Home Againi"I gave cyclones the names of my siblings", Vika Mana , single work poetry
ClanC #overflowi"I had followed him on Twitter long before I turned so bitter", Ian Simmons , single work poetry
Unbraiding Seeds of Homei"dem folks feed off Black women’s", Denise Chapman , single work poetry

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