Published 15 March 2024
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Poetry is where Meanjin began, and Autumn 2024 is Meanjin‘s first with new Poetry Editor Jeanine Leane – be sure to include this issue in your collection. In heavy times, we read with heavy hearts, and reflect with open minds. Embrace Australia’s finest writers.
The Meanjin Paper
ILKAKELHEME AKNGAKELHEME—RESISTING ASSIMILATION
Theresa Penangke Alice
EDITORIAL
Esther Anatolitis
Σταθία Ανατολίτη
State of the Nation
PLACE MY HANDS IN THE WATER
Phoebe Grainer
THERE IS NO BEGINNING
Na’ama Carlin
PALESTINE AS LIBERATORY PRAXIS
Sara M Saleh
THE LAND OF SILENT SCREAMS
Amy Remeikis
Fiction
THE INTRICACY OF MAGPIES
Saraid Taylor
ALONE TOGETHER
Elizabeth Smyth
SHE IS THE VILLAGE
Katie Shammas
Interview
Peter Polites
Memoir
CARMEN MIRANDA’S HAT
Clare Wright OAM
STEEL SPRINGS
Steve Dow
WRITING, METHOD, AFFECT AND ADAPTATION
Ianto Ware
Books
AUSTRALIA IN THREE BOOKS: π.O.
Elese Dowden
LOVE AT THE ENDS OF THE EARTH
Ned Hirst
GRAD SCHOOL IN END TIMES
Dion Kagan
UNLOCK THE MAGIC EYE
Sam Elkin
CAN YOU SEPARATE THE ART FROM THE ARTIST?
Samantha Floreani
A FUTURE WHERE PALESTINE IS FREE
Bobuq Sayed
The Year In…
TRUTH-TELLING: THE VOICE AND AUSTRALIA’S DEMOCRACY CRISIS
Stephen Charles KC and Lucy Hamilton
Essays
THE AGENCY AND THE EQUITY
Marcus Westbury OAM
VALE ESME TIMBERY (1931-2023)
Djon Mundine OAM FAHA
WRITERS VICTORIA 2023 STATE OF THE (WRITING) NATION ORATION: A MINOR AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE
André Dao
TEN YEARS ON FROM HAZELWOOD: LAST DECADE’S SECOND-WORST DISASTER
Tom Doig
ARMAGEDDON AGAIN
Robin Gerster
WITHOUT PROPORTION OR RESTRAINT
Jack Nicholls
GET BACK IN THE KITCHEN
Michelle See-Tho
TESTAMENTARY (UN)FREEDOM
Renata Grossi
Experiments
MEMORIES OF A METAPHYSICALLY DISPLACED PERSON
Ouyang Yu
…SIJO/STLING? NOTES ON FORM AS INTERLINGUISTIC, TRANSCULTURAL SURVIVAL STRATEGY
Dan Disney
Poetry
Election day
Dave Clark
Thread
Eileen Chong
Burma
Eliza Dune Daiza
Three Lessons
Coco X. Huang
Graphology Paraph 50: the tomography of metaphor
John Kinsella
The Natives
Yasmin Smith
An oath
Angela Costi
Oomarri—coming home
Traudl Tan with Kwini Elder Ambrose Mungala Chalarimeri
Hit and run
Leila Mansour
Middle-aged on Monday
Shane Lisle
Dreaming in Bourke
Paul Magee
Australia
Nathanael O’Reilly
