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Author:agent Gareth Morgan

Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 Doing Our Best

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'After Black Inc.’s long-running Best Australian Poems series was discontinued in 2018, a ‘gap’ was left in the ‘market’. The publisher Australian Poetry stepped in, publishing the first Best of Australian Poems in early 2021, edited by Ellen van Neerven and Toby Fitch. The second volume followed in early 2022, edited by Jeanine Leane and Judith Beveridge.' (Introduction)

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y Meanjin vol. 82 no. 4 December 2023 27352506 2023 periodical issue Abstract
'Art and fiction is our focus this season: let’s lift our gaze, feed our spirits and gather our strengths.

'Because this year has tested us. It has opened our eyes, it has broken our hearts and it has exhausted us. Truth and lie, courage and cowardice, pride and shame. And the new lows we have seen this year, so far beneath shame that we shudder to comprehend... Systematically lying for deliberately cruel impact, and then crowing with impunity. The horrors of wars with genocidal intent. The violence of unrelenting colonisation.' (Editorial introduction)
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pg. 195-198