Westerly 35:3

Contents:

Essay

Robert Drewe Into the Desert for Once
W.H. New Rearticulating West
David Hough Australian Provincialism Writ Large*
Andrew Ross Theatre in the West
David Kerr Portraying the Aboriginal People: the role of "Aboriginal and Islander Identity"
Michael Ackland Towards "The Shadow": Henry Kendall and the mid-century Crisis of Faith
Delys Bird Australian Studies Roundup

Review

Kieran Dolin A review of Aboriginal Culture Today
Paul Kovesi A review of Andras Domahidy's Shadows and Women
Mudrooroo Narogin A review of Postmodernism: A Consideration of the Appropriation of Aboriginal Imagery
Terri-ann White A review of Shirley Geok-lin Lim's Modern Secrets
Bob Hodge and Vijay Mishra A review of Mudrooroo Narogin's Writing from the Fringe
Michael Heald A review of Tom Flood's Oceana Fine
Bruce Bennett A review of Giovanna Capone's Incandescent Verities: The Fiction of Hal Porter
Veronica Brady A review of Pat Lowe with Jimmy Pike's Jilji: Life in the Great Sandy Desert

Poetry

Nicolette Stasko Lament
John Kinsella Magpie Larks
Andrew Burke warble orble ardle oodle
Steve Evans Wattle
Peter Porter An Address to the Stars
Peter Porter Memorandum to my Daughters
Peter Porter Vecchio Libro, Senti
Peter Porter Autobiography
Robert Gray The Girls
Robert Gray Renga
Robert Gray Passage
Robert Gray "Out rowing…"
Christopher Kelen Socialism in one Poem
Peter Rose The Classicist's Birthday Tribute
Peter Rose Dexterity
Harry Aveling Sleeping Platform
Harry Aveling 4th December 1984
Harry Aveling Mogul Night Flute-Music
Graeme Wilson At Ofu Bay
Graeme Wilson Potential Bodhisattva
Chin Woon Ping Love in the Afternoon
Chin Woon Ping Some Women Say
Chin Woon Ping To My Second Aunt
David P. Reiter Good Morning, Bangkok
David P. Reiter Washing Her Back
David P. Reiter Fighting Beetles
Heather Cam Nightfall
Heather Cam Haiku: Night-gift
Shirley Geok-Lin Lim To a Poet Who Died Young
Penelope Layland Cave of Fishes
Michael Dugan Remembering Charles Buckmaster
Kathielyn Job Flight
Debra Stokes Healing
Selwyn Pritchard Hegemony in a Country Churchyard
Terry Harrington A Pink Christmas
Carol Seitzer Cab Fare
Jean Kent Practising
Andrew Lansdown The Spider Orchids

Fiction

Gloria Frydman Holi
Lorraine O’Brien Alla prima