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74.4 Summer 2015

Published 1 December 2015

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The summer 2015 issue of Meanjin has a wonderful essay from author and academic Margaret Simons based on an extraordinary novella-length love letter from Germaine Greer to Martin Amis. Join Greer as she travels the United States in the late seventies, flushed with the success of The Female Eunuch, seeking comfort in the arms of her American lover, seeking out pharmaceuticals with Frank Zappa, poring over Solzhenitsyn and pining for home as she scrawls page after page addressed to Amis.

Discover the architect who actually made Jorn Utzon‘s Sydney opera house work after Utzon fled the project leaving an empty and dysfunctional shell. Wonder what the Turkish secret police have made of Shane Maloney‘s latest unfinished novel. Read new fiction from John Kinsella, Nike Sulway and Omar Musa and fresh poetry from Erin Shiel, David Wood and more. Much more.

 

Meanjin Papers

‘The Long Letter To A Short Love, Or …’
Margaret Simons

 


Up Front

National accounts, December Quarter
Robyn Williams
Ondaatjie in Somerset
Geoff Lemon
Hiroshima 70
Kumi Taguchi
Check your Entitlement
Damon Young
White’s Brown Woman
Denise Varney
Australia in Three Books
Peter Pierce

 

Essays

The Politics We Deserve
Katharine Murphy
Sydney Takes Shape
Madeline Watts
The Poisoned Chalice
Anne Watson
Bomb Sights In Japan
Robin Gerster
Mad Monks and the Order of the Tin Ear
Louise D’Arcens and Clare Monagle
Sinking in the Sublime
Stephen Valambras Graham
Muscling Up to the World
Andrew Carr
Capitalism and the Uselessness of the Poem
Martin Langford
From Their Brilliant Careers, Marcus Steele
Ryan O’Neill

Memoir

Written In My Body
Na’ama Carlin
That’s Nobody’s Business But The Turks’
Shane Maloney
A Word In Your Ear
Joel Deane

 

Fiction

See That Gully. The Ghost I have Become In A World Of Asbestos
John Kinsella
Missing
Omar Musa
Shit-Lips, Cat-Knackers and the Dog-Fondler
Warwick Newnham
Saltpan
Nike Sulway

 

Poetry

The International Prototype
Benjamin Dodds
Casuarinia cunninghamiana–River She-Oak
Russell Erwin
Amaranthine
Louise Carter
Searching For A Cigarette In The Blackout After A Flood
Brian Purcell
Bach
David Wood
The Question
Nicolette Stasko
in their apartment
Daniel John Pilkington
Jealousy?
Trevor Bailey
Things On An Iron Tray On The Floor
Trevor Bailey
On The Death Of The Past
Christopher Palmer
Elegy Written In A Dead Metropolitan Library
Corey Wakeling
Syaw
Erin Shiel
Ode On An Imprecise Subject
Dugald Williamson
Loss
Michelle Cahill
apologia to the converted
Judy Durrant

 

 

 

 

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84.2 Winter 2025
84.1 Autumn 2025

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