Published 18 June 2025
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What is a revolution? What are the sounds of the commons, the crickets, the carpark, the quails and the creek? Who funds culture wars, and whose interests does their gamble serve? Can you dance through an entire year—and what is there to learn?
This winter, Meanjin’s fiction, poetry, memoir, experiments and essays take us on new adventures.
The Meanjin Paper
‘I AM AN INVISIBLE MAN’
Djon Mundine OAM
EDITORIAL
Esther Anatolitis
Σταθία Ανατολίτη
State of the Nation
Big Incel Energy
Claire G. Coleman
Mind-numbing sleep-woking
Lucy Hamilton
Courage, anyone?
Barry Jones
Fiction
Cut him out of little stars
Gary Perkins
Open
Jo Langdon
Zheravna
Matthew Clayfield
The Oracle
Ben Sorgiovanni
Interview
Ouyang Yu
Memoir
A woman now
Nicole Jacobsen
A refugee daughter’s pilgrimage
Lisa Pham
Sounds of the tip, or: Learning to listen to Oxley Creek Common
Stuart Cooke
The Year In…
Dance
Carl Sciberras
Essays
🌹 Beautiful Cabin Crew, Scarlett Johansson 💋💋
Patrick Marlborough
Abortion, naturally
Cat Williams
The climate crisis urges us to repair our broken constitution
Bronwyn Lay
Safeguarding Australian history
Wing Kuang
What is a revolution?
Marika Sosnowski
Courage, imagination, understanding: Creative Australia in 2025
Alison Croggon
Experiments
Stages of Decomposition
Bridget Webster
Poetry
Listening in
Lachlan Brown
The Spaces In-between
Daniel Ray
Fissures
Thirangie Jayatilake
The mountain hut
Angela Gardner
The Anthropocene is a geological epoch
Sophie Finlay
Waves Poem
Toby Fitch
A study in resistances
Jena Woodhouse
Eulogy
Lianne Broadbent
A brown dog runs the shoreline
Alisha Brown
From the River to the Sea
Hannah James
Books
Australia in three books
Harry Saddler
What value, a poet?
Dion Kagan
Building a moral world
Emily Meller
Excited about inferiority, passionate about potatoes
Gareth Morgan
Failed saints
Martyn Reyes
Transsexualism is a Humanism
Amelia C. Winter
