Westerly 42:4

Contents:

Essay

Anne Gray It's about time
Chris Sharkey The Westralian frontier: a visual and literary interpretation
Roberta Buffi Through Doors and Windows: Painting and the Woman Artist in Drusilla Modjeska's The Orchard

Creative Non-fiction

Robin Wallace-Crabbe A word of two before you paint

Review

Heather Neilson A review of Marion Halligan's Collected Stories
Lydia Wells A review of Barbara Blackman's Glass After Glass
Terri-Ann White A review of Gillian Mears' Collected Stories
Tony Hughes-D’aeth A review of John Mateer's Anachronism and James Taylor (ed) Boxkite: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics

Poetry

Carole Johnson Loess
Jeff Guess Villanelle
Marcella Polain haunted
Marcella Polain aquarium
Anthony Lawrence Still Life with Approaching Death
Karen Attard For Shane
Anthony Lawrence Erratum
Diane Beckingham Shaped Fillip
Diane Beckingham continuous corrugations
John Foulcher Towel
Barbara Brandt Splinter
Jan Owen Zeno Sideon
Cyndie Innes The Meaning of Wife
Jan Owen Glad Rag Dolls
Dane Twaites Brack: Scene from Musical Comedy 1967
Carmel Macdonald Grahame Painterly
Jan Teagle Kapetas While My Eyes Erode Slowly
Carole Johnson Derelict
Glen Phillips Margins

Fiction

Janette Turner Hospital Cape Tribulation
Sara Dowse The Man in the Gene
Michael Wilding Nephew's Story
Peter Cowan The Room
Lesley Thomas Cut and Paste
Stephen Dedman Sojourner
Cyndie Innes Housemate
Carolyn Logan Bomb Shelter
Cyndie Innes The Tiara
Rosanne Dingli The Land of Smiles
Adlib Khan Out There
Thomas Shapcott Gold Coast