Meanjin Vol 82, No 1

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• Publisher: Meanjin Digital
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN: 9780522879711
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Essays
• Index: Literature

Light, air and the autumn wind. Good drying weather. Ethics and history and peace and war and the laundry. Taking stock. Abandoned cities, lost children, political legacies emptied of all honour. ???????????. How we commemorate, and what we forget. The cost of education, the cost of living, the costs of doing nothing. Insects, birds, bulls, deer, saplings, forests, the Great Barrier Reef. Ethical beekeeping, hydrogeology, the second person. Ruin porn and inspiration porn. Solar Punk and Chengyu and the Argonauts. Housing and home, love and Metta, class and compassion. Understanding where it is that we exist when we're gathering our forces. Let's get our house in order – and prepare for what comes next.

Table of contents

• COVER
• TITLE PAGE
• COPYRIGHT PAGE
• CONTENTS
• EDITORIAL
• NATIONAL ACCOUNTS
• BEEKEEPING AS AN ACT OF RESISTANCE
• ON LIVED EXPERIENCE
• Messaging
• LIFE OF A FOLK DEVIL
• Study on Artefacts
• AUSTRALIA IN THREE BOOKS
• A MIRACLE CORRUPTED: THE DOWNFALL OF AN UNLOVED PRIME MINISTER
• Adam and ADAM
• Two Thousand and One Nights
• ARIA FROM THE LAST ACT
• Green Soul Working
• BLOOD AND BONE
• Barks of Great Artists
• AGAINST THE EQUATION
• Journal in August
• HIROSHIMA BLOOMS
• THE COMFORT OF THINGS PAST
• GARDENING AT THE END OF THE WORLD
• Here Tonight:
• THE WASHING LINE
• ONE DAY ON NAURU
• THE ARGONAUTICA I AM RE-ENVISAGING AND WILL
• CARVE
• WHO SHOULD DIE, AND WHAT SHOULD WE DO WITH THE BODIES?
• Over and Over
• ONLY PARENT, ONLY CHILD
• The Flock
• RUIN PORN AND INSPIRATION PORN
• The Old Tin Shacks
• SLAUGHTERHOUSE SIX
• ST ALBANS
• First Winter
• NOBODY WRITES
• ART FOR A CLIMATE EMERGENCY
• THE LONE TREE OF MACKAY
• Sunflowers
• THE PROMISE OF A REAL JOB
• SOMETHING BREATHABLE
• The Prodigal
• VIETS IN PERTH
• WHATEVER YOU WRITE, THERE YOU ARE
• The Taste of Insects
• THE MOST DANGEROUS WOMAN IN SYDNEY?
• ACKNOWLEDGED LEGISLATORS
• THE LIE OF SOCIAL MOBILITY
• SEVERANCE PAY
• IF SELFIES COULD TALK
• Poetry contributors