For this first issue of Meniscus for 2026, poets and stories approach ideas of grief, estrangement, ageing, and the fragile work of connection: between parent and child, between partners, between the living and the dead, or between the self and a world that has become unfamiliar. Even when the settings are domestic or ordinary, many of the stories in particular open onto something more unsettling, uncanny, speculative, or darkly comic.
Read Volume 14, Issue 1 of Meniscus, here.
This issue includes scholarly contributions by Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington on ekphrastic poetry; Ekaterina Pechenkina, Carolyn Beasley and Julian Novitz on new models of creative writing workshop; Delia Falconer on mentorship; Jenny Hedley on depression diaries; Seth Robinson on imagining the end of the world; Jenny Hedley, Gareth Morgan, Stayci Taylor and Jessica Wilkinson on form; and Delia Falconer with Sarah Holland-Batt on models to inform the new Australian Poet Laureateship.
We review books by Nigel Krauth, Loribelle Spirovski, David Stavanger, Juliet A. Paine, Julia Prendergast, Phil Brown, Anna Donaldson and Matt Shank, Matthew Hooton, Barrina South, Siang Lu, and Benjamin Sheppard et. al.
New creative writing on writing in this issue includes work by Duc Dau, Belinda Rule, Diwakar Gautam, Stephanie Green, Md Mujib Ullah, Marshall Moore, Ryan O’Neill, Jane Downing, Caitlin Burns, Christos Constantine, Ian C Smith, Lauren Pitt, Julia Prendergast and Nikki Wong.
Read the full edition via the TEXT website.
