Westerly 36:3

Contents:

Essay

Dennis Haskell "My rather tedious hero": A Portrait of Kenneth Slessor
Frank Palmos Kenneth Slessor—A view from knee-high, 1955-1959
Gerry Turcotte "Speaking the Formula of Abjection:" Hybrids and Gothic Discourses in Louis Nowra's Novels
Antonella Riem Autobiography of Fiction? Patrick White's Memoirs of Many in One

Review

Amanda Nettelbeck A review of Elizabeth Jolley's Cabin Fever
Veronica Brady A review of John Barnes' The Order of Things: A Life of Joseph Furphy
Dennis Haskell A review of Satendra Nandan's The Wounded Sea
Diane Fahey A review of Shane McCauley's The Butterfly Man
Sandy Toussaint A review of Going It Alone? Prospects for Aboriginal Autonomy
John Kinsella A review of Fay Zwicky's Ask Me
Igor Maver A review of Michael Wilding's Great Climate

Poetry

Rita Tognini Marco Polo Bridge, Beijing, 1985
Jena Woodhouse Abandoned Village
Vera Newsom Four Tankas
Jan Owen The Kiss
David P. Reiter The River Under Kwai Bridge
Lawrence Bourke Walking Through the Mall
David McCooey Fathers
Philip Salom The Venetian Twins
Philip Salom Driving Through Malaysia
Jill Jones Flagging down time
Jill Jones Like Dante in the library
Andrew Leggett Get A Woman For It
Vera Newsom Untitled Poem
Anthony Lawrence The Woman and the Shouting Man
Lauris Edmond Biography
Lauris Edmond 5 p.m. December 29
Rod Moran A Dream of My Brother on the Oil Rig
Chris Wallace-Crabbe Metamorphosis
Debbie Robson The Cats will Come

Fiction

Shirley Blake Sketches from a Journey
Archimede Fusillo To Journey's End
Gail Bell Urgent English
P.M. Marsh The Web
Catherine Conzato Muriel's Decline
Lesley Stern And Then The Lights Come Up
L.G. Perera Call You Falling
Steve Conte A Comic Treatment
Margaret Betts Broken Slats
Yve Louis Prose Suite