MEANJIN BACK ISSUE

It's Only Words
Vol 59, no. 2, 1999



In 'It's Only Words' Meanjin delves into our fascination with words, language and storytelling. There are words of grief and black humour from Hannah Fink, of disorientation and dislocation from Dominique Hecq, of unreconciled pasts from George Seddon. Looking closely at the spinning of stories, Dennis Altman queries the confessional in 'I think therapy is good images. for other people', Bernard Cohen conjures witnessing words in 'In the ensuing trial', and Abbas El-Zein puts a twist on the seductions of Sheherezade in 'Words, swords and insomniac beauties'.