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'Welcome to Meniscus volume 11, issue 2. We weren’t sure, eleven years ago, if we’d be able to get a new literary journal up and running, but thanks to our contributors and readers, it has after all happened. Thank you for making our work (a) possible and (b) so rewarding.
'For this issue, there was a very large submissions pile, both poetry and prose. This means that far too much quality work was, necessarily, rejected. The principles for selecting about 60 poems and 18 prose works out of over 1,000 submissions required us to make very difficult decisions. The aim was to produce an issue with a balance of style, voice, and content, and ensuring we include some new writers alongside well-established voices.' (Jen Webb and Ginna Brock: Editorial introduction)
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Only literary material within AustLit's scope individually indexed.
Contents
- Man on a Roofi"Half an hour ago, I saw", single work poetry (p. 11)
- Babushkai"And when he laid eyes on her", single work poetry (p. 12)
- The Plani"6 a.m. Still winter dark.", single work poetry (p. 19-20)
- Dead Keeni"Those who stopped at The Three Cockatoos for a quick beer", single work poetry (p. 21)
- This Is the Poem of the Momenti"He speaks on a chemical frequency", single work poetry (p. 23-26)
- A Stone Turns Over a Stonei"A stone turns over a stone.", single work poetry (p. 28)
- Winter Beachi"Mirrored clouds and a turncoat wind", single work poetry (p. 29)
- Earth Walkingi"earth walking its children", single work poetry (p. 32)
- It Is Ever Thusi"It is ever thus. I lay awake in bed waiting to hear the car pull in, the", single work poetry (p. 33-35)
- Chicken and Chips, single work prose (p. 38-44)
- Temporal Disintegration Love Poemi"Though touch and go for", single work poetry (p. 45-46)
- Lakeside Night Walki"it was all getting grim again", single work poetry (p. 80)
- When He Broke with the Depressioni"catalysed months earlier in the third student suicide in three years he fantasied tears would soon", single work poetry (p. 93)
- A Song for the Chokos – A Sijoi"Far from their frame, the lóng xū vines grow. Grandma inspects them each day.", single work poetry (p. 95)
- Leaving, single work poetry (p. 96-101)
- Promisesi"What the stories promise they never give", single work poetry (p. 102-103)
- She Hasn’t Felt This Clean in Ten Thousand Yearsi"She pushes them beneath the water’s skin,", single work poetry (p. 111-112)
- Wearing the Nighti"Wearing the night like an artist again not an invalid.", single work poetry (p. 113-114)
- In the Endi"In the end, the beginning doesn’t really matter. Nothing matters", single work poetry (p. 116-118)
- A Tale of Two Sauces, single work prose (p. 119-121)
