Published 15 June 2023
Meanjin Winter 2023 marks a new direction for the journal. It’s the first edition to reframe The Meanjin Paper as a piece by a First Nations Elder that greets us the moment we sit down to read.
It’s the first to introduce new sections that assess the state of the nation, welcome experiments, and cast a long gaze across one particular field.
And it’s the first by new designer Stephen Banham, the internationally renowned typographer who has dedicated his career to creating a distinctly Australian graphic design language.
The Meanjin Paper
MAKUNSCHAN, MEEANJAN, MIGANCHAN, MEANJAN, MAGANDJIN
Gaja Kerry Charlton
EDITORIAL
Esther Anatolitis
Σταθία Ανατολίτη
State of the Nation
JOURNALISM AND THE REFERENDUM
Dan Bourchier
STAYIN’ ALIVE
Jasper Peach
PRISED WIDE SHUT
Jo Dyer
Memoir
GROUNDWATER
Deborah Wardle
MY YEAR AS A SALARIED ARTIST
Jennifer Mills
FOOT NOTES
Melanie Pryor
Fiction
I NAMED HER NATURALLY BECAUSE I LOVE CASTLES
Dan Hogan
PICTURE OF A PEANUT GALLERY
Mohammed Massoud Morsi
THE CLEANER
Lisa Nan Joo
UNTOLD HISTORIES: THE LAST DAYS OF SIR THOMAS MITCHELL
Belinda Paxton
Interview
Maxine Beneba Clarke
Experiments
–ZOOM–a talking mirror
Alex Selentisch
JUSTINE & JACQUIE AND THEIR ADVENTURES ON THE OTHER SIDE
(AN EXCERPT)
Jason Barker and Justin Clemens
OUTtakes nine to thirty-eight
Cynthia Troup
Books
AUSTRALIA IN THREE BOOKS
Julianne Schultz
SEISMIC SHIFTS
Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn
THE LONGING FOR BELONGING
May Ngo
IN THE DEVELOPING SOLUTION
Jonno Revanche
ONLY THE CRY REMAINS
Alex Gerrans
OPAQUE GEMS
Ellen O’Brien
Essays
WE ARE HOPING AUSTRALIANS WILL VOTE ‘YES’
Marcia Langton
THE POLITICS OF HOME
Rachel Goldlust
AN ELEGANT REVENGE: LANGUAGE AT PLAY
Lur Alghurabi
WHY DOES ELON MUSK, THE LARGEST CLOWN IN THE CLOWN CAR, SIMPLY NOT EAT THE OTHER CLOWNS?
Patrick Lenton
BEYOND THE GOVERNANCE GAPS
Kate Larsen
I WENT FOR A WALK AND SAW MY OWN DYSTOPIAN ART
Catherine Ryan
‘THE GRACEFUL INCOMING OF A REVOLUTION’
Tom McIlroy
MONEY SHOT: GOLF AND PUBLIC LAND
Briohny Doyle
AUSTRALIA BEYOND THE CROWN
Craig Foster
IS THE LITERARY INDUSTRY EVEN WORTH SAVING?
Matilda Dixon-Smith
The Year In
NOT TALKING ABOUT TYPOGRAPHY IN 2022
Stephen Banham
Poetry
Greedy
Kirli Saunders
Reading Blanchot at Neutral Bay
Kevin Hart
Smoke and Mirrors
Stephen Edgar
Citronella
Ella Ferris
Aim Happy
Ken Bolton
Overflow
Vanessa Proctor
The Waves
Louis Campbell
Snow Gums
Lucas Smith
nine points in time
Jane Gibian
Past
Simeon Kronenberg
