Meanjin 2020 Vol 79 No 2 Winter

Meanjin #79 #2

by Jonathan Green (Editor)

Author and essayist Lucia Osborne-Crowley examines the cost of intimacy for women in a world where men demand exclusive access to the closeness of their female partners, often without returning the emotional labour involved.

Noongar author Claire G. Coleman writes on the long shadow of the Stolen 'Dad discovered he was Noongar when he was 63, when I was 30, when his Uncle Bob died . . . ' Poet Toby Fitch details Australian animal and bird extinction from 1788 to the present. Lucy Treloar, Guy Rundle, Rebecca Slater, Elizabeth Flux, Jennifer Mills, Michael Cathcart, Maria Takolander, and Jack Hibberd.

220 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2020

About the author

Jonathan Green has been a working journalist since the late 1970s, mainly on newspapers including The Melbourne Herald, The Herald Sun, The Sunday Herald, The Sunday Age and The Age. He edited Crikey for three years before becoming foundation editor of ABC online's The Drum. He now hosts Sunday Extra on Radio National.

Reviews

[Highlyeccentric · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty good, all up. Gave myself permission to skip things, for once - some fiction, and some of the reviews, mostly. Oh and an essay about the internet. I think about the internet too much already.

Stand-outs were, I think:

Lucy Treloar, Writing the Apocalypse
Alexis Wright, A self-governing literature
Michael Cathart, A tale of four ludicrous deaths
Clare G Coleman, Hidden in Plain Sight
Sarah Sasson, Attachment