Westerly 43:1

Contents:

Essay

Mary Ann Hughes The Complexity of Aboriginal Identity: Mudrooroo and Sally Morgan
Brenton Doecke How to Read Pioneer Sagas: Miles Franklin's All That Swagger
Sue Gillett Beyond National Imaginings: Adventuring in the Motherland in Sue Woolfe's Leaning Towards Infinity

Interview

Bruce Dawe and John Kinsella John Kinsella in conversation with Bruce Dawe

Review

Bruce Russell A Review of Brigid Lowry's Guitar Highway Rose
Tanya Dalziell A Review of Deha Falconer's The Service Of Clouds
Brian Henry A Review of Fay Zwicky's The Gatekeeper's Wife
Paul Genoni A Review of Thea Astley's Collected Short Stories and The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow

Poetry

Barbara Brandt Dusk comes early
Sarah French Terminology
Shane McCauley Fallen Pears
Peter Porter Hometown Boys
Peter Porter Two Part Invention
Peter Porter Initium Sapientiae Timor Domini
Bruce Dawe Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
John Kinsella The Iconography of Drought
John Mateer These Moments: Mt Victoria
John Mateer The Unimaginable
John Mateer The Voice that isn't Mine
John Mateer The Guide
Chris Wallace-Crabbe The Gallimaufry
Coral Hull The Camels at Silverton, New South Wales
Coral Hull The Bare Hills of South Australia and Winnininnie Creek Stones
Coral Hull Kurrajong Tree With the Warm Bright Hat of Leaves
Brendan Ryan St Kilda Beach, Thursday Afternoon
Brendan Ryan Poem
Brendan Ryan Lake Mungo
Brendan Ryan 400 metres of smoke
Philip Salom The Glass
Philip Salom Looking for Arthur's Mum
Philip Salom He Learnt the Wood
Lorraine Marwood Looking at my daughter's weather
Bev Braune Alsfeld
David Buchanan The Sounds of Swimming
Jeff Guess Girl Sewing
Russell Forster Death of this day
Russell Forster Against entropy
MTC Cronin the last day
MTC Cronin leaving the window
Zoltan Kovacs Memory Of A Milking

Fiction

Lau Siew Mei Cutting the Tight-Rope
Chris Newton Sharks
Joy Dettman Two Gifts for Annie
Cecily Scutt Re-making
Dean Kiley How to Host a Rape
Wendy James The Purse in Her Hand
Peter Constantine The Inheritance
Carolyn Polizzotto Allan Daniels and the Ghost House*