‘Entry No. 8 from my Grandmother’s Autograph Album’
by Miriam Wei Wei Lo
And yet. When I am not drunk with
scorn, I weep with longing: O to
embrace discipline! To know the
fierceness of virtue! To be a warrior
maiden, 越女 standing on a green field
beneath the open sky, with mountains
before me. To move with slow
deliberation through the sword forms:
White Crane Spreads its Wings after
Parting the Wild Horse’s Mane.
Volume 69 Number 2, May 2025
Cover: Emma Phillips, ‘Untitled 11’, 2023. Inkjet print on archival cotton rag paper. Image provided by artist. © Emma Phillips, 2023.
69.2
April 8, 2025
$24.95
issue contents
Featuring exciting new work from writers and artists across WA, Australia and the world, Westerly 69.2 showcases a range of contemporary poetry, fiction, nonfiction and, for the first time, comics, with a piece from WA comics artist Nina Dakin. Contributors to 69.2 include Carrie Chappell, Nandi Chinna, Rashida Murphy, Julie Watts, John Kinsella, Pidj Flavell, James Salvius Cheng, Sharon Mesmer, Liam Byrne, Miriam Wei Wei Lo, Hannah McCann and many others. Westerly is also proud to feature the first part of a longer work by Tjalaminu Mia, ‘Milebaar wer-moora kadidjiny won-gin wadjella-warr’, that shares stories of resistance and resilience (with parts two and three appearing in the next print issues of Westerly to come).
Contents:
Poetry
Jennifer Harrison
After Heimat, a film series by Edgar Reitz, 1984
Wes Lee
Naked
Julie Watts
Singing
Hannah McCann
Gobstopper
Lucinda Lagos
Baglady/things I touch
Maree Reedman
Recipes Your Son Will Love in Prison
Carrie Chappell
Motherhood Poem
Carrie Chappell
Motherhood Poem
Carrie Chappell
Motherhood Poem
Miriam Wei Wei Lo
Entry No. 8 from my Grandmother’s Autograph Album
Carolyn Abbs
The Hours Before You Were Born
Jewel Oreskovich
The Girl of Never Letting Go
Sam Moe
La Ruptura
Toni Morgan
Milo River
Alexander Bennetts
everything is about something
Sharon Mesmer
Void of Course Hours
Jaya Penelope
the tiny graves
Satya Dash
Beard River
Pidj Flavell
Australian Idol
Brian Obiri-Asare
The Long Afteryears of Sunlight
Zoe Barron
Commitment
Shey Marque
Persimmon
Gillian Martin
Hinterlands
Thomas Simpson
Bend
Kevin Cahill
The Fringed Sandwort
Ion Corcos
To Realise ‘Tree’ & ‘Mouth’
Nandi Chinna
Plains Wanderer
John Kinsella
Mote
Mojtaba Sanati
Untitled
Fiction
James Salvius Cheng
The Rat
Aharon Levy
Two
Alexandra O’Sullivan
In the Bin
Myles McGuire
Labyrinth
Theresa Wilks
Salt-finger
Liam Byrne
When the Agent Calls
Michael Long
The Last Chook
Tiffany Hastie
The Noble Ibis
Rashida Murphy
Our Women
Creative Nonfiction
Kim Bredenhann
Homing
Tjalaminu Mia
Milebaar wer-moora kadidjiny won-gin wadjella-warr / Age and Blak Wisdom: surviving in a white world, part I
Cil Harris
Living in Parts
T. L. Tomljanovic
Unrenaissance Woman
Scholarly
Paul Collis (Barkindji), Jen Crawford, Wayne Knight (Barkindji/Kunya), Emma Philipps and Paul McGee
The River as Blood Line
Art Essay
Richard Read
The Absence of Presence and Presence of Absence in Angela Stewart’s Paintings
Comic
Nina Dakin
Mulberry Tree
