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75.1 Autumn 2016

Published 15 March 2016

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In the Autumn issue of Meanjin Australian literary legend Gerald Murnane explains what a long and complex sentence can do for meaning.

We explore the cracks between the gender binary, wonder what it is that makes regional Australia tick, and look again at the art of Tom Roberts.

There’s new fiction from Michael Wilding and Heather Rose, poetry from Peter Minter and Julie Chevalier, and Miles Franklin winner Sofie Laguna lists her contenders for Australia in Three Books. 

 

Meanjin Papers

IN PRAISE OF THE LONG SENTENCE
Gerald Murnane

 


Up Front

NATIONAL ACCOUNTS
Amy McQuire
I WANTED TO DIE. I WANTED TO LIVE
Gina Rushton
THE ECONOMY OF BEST PERCEPTIONS
Stephen Koukoulas
APARTMENT LIVING
Asher Wolf
LISTENING
Zoe Krupka
THE LUMPEN CRITIC
Shannon Burns

 

Essays

AUSTRALIA IN THREE BOOKS
Sofie Laguna
DRIVING MR MENZIES
Paul Daley
CONSERVATIVE FUTURES
Gray Connolly
GETTING SQUARE IN A JERKING CIRCLE
Luke Carman
I, CITIZEN
Fatima Measham
GET MAD AND GET EVEN
Eleanor Roberston
REAL MEN DO HIT WOMEN
Michael Salter
ROADS TO COEN
Timothy Neale
POLITICS THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
The Piping Shrike
ECHOES OF GONDWANA
Stuart Cooke
ARE WE THERE YET?
Kevin Brophy
FORGET HEIDELBERG?
Gary Werskey
CONTEMPORARY MASTERS
Martin Langford
FROM THEIR BRILLIANT CAREERS: BARRY BURBAGE
Ryan O’Neill

Memoir

ANOTHER COUNTRY
Gabrielle Chan
IN PRAISE OF BEING KNOWN
Marcia Jacobs
SUNDAY BLDY SUNDAY
Elizabeth Smyth
THE TEA ROOM
K.W. George

 

Fiction

BOOK FUTURES
Michael Wilding
THE FIVE SORROWFUL MYSTERIES
Philomena van Rijswijk
MR HEMINGWAY’S FISH
Heather Rose

 

Poetry

Pulse
Greg McLaren
Bermondsey Street
Simeon Kronenberg
Magnolia
Eileen Chong
Craft
Peter Minter
 Almost Aubade, Melbourne
Fiona Wright
Late Show
Peter Kirkpatrick
Scorpion/Love Poem
Sarah Holland-Batt
Eulogy on the Flapper
Alison Gorman
Bringing It All Back Home, 1965
Simeon Kronenberg
Fictionality
Paul Dawson
 Augmented Sonnet for a Trophy Wife
Mark Macrossan
The Old Woman
Lea McInerney
Plan B
Julie Chevalier
A Closer Inspection
Mark Macrossan

 

 

 

Edition

84.4 Summer 2025
84.3 Spring 2025
84.2 Winter 2025
84.1 Autumn 2025

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