Westerly 30:2

Contents:

Essay

Richard Douglas Jordan Adam Lindsay Gordon: The Australian Poet
Elizabeth Jolley Over the Escarpment: Horace in the Southern Hemisphere?*
Elizabeth Lawson A Rather Prosaic Australian Wifte', or The Fortunes of Mary Mahony

Review

Jim Legasse A review of John Docker's In a Critical Condition
Veronica Brady A review of John Docker's In a Critical Condition
Helen Watson-Williams A review of Randolph Stow's The Suburbs of Hell

Poetry

Bary Dowling Pea Paddock
Rod Moran Single Mother
Chin Woon Ping Malacca Song
Chin Woon Ping Grief
Sarah Day Museum Attendant
Nicholas Hasluck Cri De Coeur
D.J. Wright Reflections
R.G. Hay Worth all your laurels
Erron Adams Telephone
Bary Dowling Expatriates
Andrew Lansdown Why Giraffe Hormones are Not Suitable as a Cure for Squatness
Ross Fitzgerald She, 17 he, nearly 40.

Fiction

Ann Granat A Bitter Love
Joan London The Girls Love Each Other
Carolyn Bell Space Invaders
Silvana Gardner Peas Make The Man
Peter Loftus The Long Cloud
Beth Spencer The Purple Flower
Johannes Ambrose Man Beaten to Death by Gang