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Issue Details: First known date: 2018... vol. 77 no. 1 Autumn 2018 of Meanjin est. 1940 Meanjin
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 2018 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Unaccommodated Tonguei"Squeamish as a courtier sprung", Peter Rose , single work poetry (p. 116-117)
Seeing Landscape, Jennifer Mills , single work essay

'My mother Margaret is an artist, although she wouldn’t say as much without adding some qualification. Let’s say she is a landscape painter. When she turned 70 I invited her to spend two weeks as artist in residence at a place in Bilpin, west of Sydney. If this seems generous, you should know that I also invited myself; I wanted to write about it. The gifts of writers, of daughters, come with qualifications too.' (Introduction)

(p. 118-141)
My Jewish Atheist Journey, Antony Loewenstein , single work autobiography

'I don’t remember the first time I noticed my family’s racism. It was probably as a teenager during a Friday night, Sabbath meal in Melbourne. An event in the Middle East would have occurred in the previous weeks, a suicide bombing in Jerusalem or a terror attack against Israelis, and one of my cousins would predictably erupt into a diatribe against the Palestinians and their leader Yasser Arafat. This was the late 1980s and early 1990s, before the internet, so knowledge about a country on the other side of the world came from only a few sources.' (Introduction)

(p. 134-140)
Exilei"A calf had slipped the loose-strung wire,", Belinda J. Rule , single work poetry (p. 141)
‘The Road-makers Eat Meat Three Times a Day’, Grace Moore , single work essay

'In 1871 and 1872 the novelist and travel writer Anthony Trollope visited Australia. He recorded his observations of the colony in a sequence of letters, and wrote every day for the work that would become the two-volume travelogue Australia and New Zealand (1873), which he followed up during his second visit with a series of letters to the Liverpool Mercury. This body of Australian work, to the modern reader, offers fascinating and at times devastating insights into the settler community’s impact on antipodean ecology. In particular, Trollope noted the effects of importing European plants and animals, sometimes as an advocate for acclimatisation and at others as an opponent.' (Introduction)

(p. 142-157)
Only So Much, Eda Gunaydin , single work autobiography

'The shoulder bumps from strangers that make me shove back during the day go down easier at night. The power dynamic shifts when you hurry against the CBD’s foot traffic as a group, newly animated with the ability to break up other clusters of bodies with your increased speed and size. On the corner of Sydney’s George and Bathurst I glance up, diverted by some Big Four firm’s logo beaming down—its sedate, civilised, civilising weight. The building’s few lit office windows cut and blaze against the ones that have gone dark. I imagine being one of those floating Friday bodies shifting on an eighth floor, fiddling with my stationery, sipping from my mug of free pod coffee, looking out the window after dusk and realising that I should climb into my car-smelling car, return to my flat-smelling flat and kiss my cat-smelling cat. Then Ahmet falls onto his side.' (Introduction)

(p. 152-157)
Creaturei"All those hominids stood around to watch,", Chris Wallace-Crabbe , single work poetry (p. 161)
The Fame, Paul Dalla Rosa , single work short story (p. 166-173)
Hearing Bertha Lawson, Kerrie Davies , single work essay

'At the 2017 Brisbane Writers Festival, I sat on the ‘Australian Heroes’ panel with First World War historian Martin Crotty, Rebe Taylor, author of Into the Heart of Tasmania, and Crotty’s colleague, University of Queensland historian Geoff Ginn.' (Introduction)

(p. 181-187)
A Darkness, A Shadow, Helena Kadmos , Rachel Robertson , single work autobiography (p. 188-193)
Sweetnessi"It’s almost evening and I can hear the honey-gatherers", Judith Beveridge , single work poetry (p. 191)
Four New Collections and a Question Mark, Martin Langford , single work review (p. 194-200)
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