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Published 19-06-2017
ISBN 9780522871463
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Subjects Literary essays
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Meanjin Vol 76, No 2

Jonathan Green

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Published 19-06-2017
ISBN 9780522871463
Pages 204
Subjects Literary essays
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Essays, memoir, fiction and poetry from Australia's finest writers.

A tinge of sadness in this June 2017 edition of Meanjin: it includes the last Commonplace column filed by John Clarke before his death in April. Published with the kind permission of his family it is a beautifully turned and now poignant piece. Clarke’s longtime home, the ABC, is the subject of the major essay in this Meanjin edition. Margaret Simons takes a long hard look at the broadcaster’s past and present, and a future very much in contest.

About The Author

Jonathan Green has been an editor, writer, commentator and broadcaster in a 40-year career as a journalist, beginning with a cadetship at The Canberra Times and taking in various Australian dailies: the Melbourne Herald, The Herald Sun, the Sunday Herald, The Sunday Age and 15 years at The Age. Jonathan left The Age in 2006…