MEANJIN BACK ISSUE

Wide Open Road
Vol 59, no. 3, 1999



With 'Wide Open Road', Meanjin offers readings of the road and landscape, accounts of movement and migration. There are illusory freedoms in the stories of Moya Costello and Chi Vu, layerings of history in the poems of John Anderson and John Tranter. Loretta Baldassar reflects on her longstanding project tracing the comings and goings of migrants between Australia and Italy, and Tony Birch tours Victoria's western district and finds in its designated sights and landmarks an anxious history of absence and denial. Coral Hull's poetry selection takes up the theme of landscape, in particular, and is complemented by 'The Benefaction', an extended work from John Kinsella. Also featured is an interview with noted writer and cultural theorist Stephen Muecke, by Chris Healy.