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Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 The Ocean Last Night
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'Lorne, Victoria, 1937. Who could say the name of the pollen that was billowing through the air along the road towards the pier? Who could say how many dolphins were in the pod arcing across Loutitt Bay? Who was to say how best to catch the purple crays crawling through the pools of the shelving shore, or what the name of the lemon-browed bird was bobbing in the currents between the waves?' (Introduction)

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  • Epigraph: Who will ever know all that lies in the secret heart of certain works? —Francis Poulenc

    To learn how to read any map is to be indoctrinated into that mapmaker’s culture. —Peter Turchi

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    y separately published work icon Meanjin Slave to the Algorithm vol. 77 no. 4 Summer 2018 15360812 2018 periodical issue

    'Meanjin did not publish a piece of fiction until 1943 - 'we still strive to talk poetry', founding editor Clem Christesen observed, perhaps tellingly, in the first Meanjin of December 1940.' (Jonathan Green Editorial introduction)

    2018
    pg. 166-176
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