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'This year marks our tenth volume and in this edition for the anniversary year we have welcomed writers from USA, Canada, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and UK, to contribute to our initial and ongoing aim of offering Meniscus as an international journal. This issue has been edited at the bottom of the world by two New Zealanders, Sandra Arnold and Gail Pittaway, who took on the challenge of working through nearly 600 submissions. Though hard work, it was a joy to see the range and scope of themes and forms. It’s also been encouraging to see several of the writers who have offered work in previous volumes continuing to submit work to our literary journal, through to 2022. Looking back at those earlier issues it is clear that not only has Meniscus grown in volume, with increasing numbers of writers added to later issues, it has also grown in geographical scope and reach. We proudly publish several authors for the first time and encourage those whose efforts couldn’t make it to this volume to keep sending in work and to persevere.' (Publication summary)
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Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.
Contents
- Some Wankeri"The old man clunks, slops around", single work poetry (p. 12)
- Victoria Bridgei"So many structures at this site are lost,", single work poetry (p. 19)
- Last Painting : Waiting at the Styxi"Late afternoon, the man in the blue canoe", single work poetry (p. 20)
- A Feathered Thingi"In the shadow of a Siberian Pine,", single work poetry (p. 22)
- A Sonnet After Harwoodi"She awakes. The grind of a garbage truck", single work poetry (p. 23)
- A Pigeon at Hyde Parki"I watch a pigeon at the lake’s edge, feet sinking into silt.", single work poetry (p. 24)
- Tankai"On the water’s skin", single work poetry (p. 29)
- Neurodiversityi"This heteroclite, this irregular", single work poetry (p. 30)
- River's Edge, single work short story (p. 31-39)
- The First Blowfly of Springi"Fresh from some delicious decay,", single work poetry (p. 40)
- Creek Bedi"This country’s not my own", single work poetry (p. 50)
- Flight, single work short story (p. 52-61)
- In Life's Fragmentation We Travel Together, single work prose (p. 64-72)
- Two Hundred and Sixty-two Days, single work short story (p. 74-79)
- Until the Crows Come Home, single work short story (p. 85-86)
- Dust, single work short story (p. 87-95)
- My Brother's Hearti"‘Step’ kept him at arm’s length.", single work poetry (p. 96-97)
- The Creek Running, single work short story (p. 103-110)
- The Right Shoes, single work short story (p. 111-117)
- Velvet Pikoi"An oversized hearth dominates the sitting room. Five", single work poetry (p. 125-126)
