Westerly 39:2

Contents:

Essay

Michael Ackland The Iphigenia Complex: Repression and Empowerment in Australian Colonial Women's Verse
Veronica Brady Reading Aboriginal Writing
Hal Colebatch A Hard Freedom – The Poetry of Lee Knowles
Julie Carr The Dancing Body – Somatic Expression in Elizabeth Jolley's Fiction

Review

Tracy Ryan A review of Dorothy Hewett's Peninsula
Gareth Griffiths A review of The Penguin Book of Australian Ballads
Lucy Dougan A review of Tracy Ryan's Killing Delilah
Shirley Walker A review of Judith Wright: Collected Poems and The Flame Tree
Ross Fitzgerald A review of Philip Neilsen's The Sting in the Wattle
Stephanie Green A review of Shrieks – A Horror Anthology
Georgia Richter A review of Carmel Bird's Not Now Jack, I'm Writing a Novel
Antonio Casella A review of Giovanna Capone's Percorsi Immaginati
Cathy Greenfield and Peter Williams A review of Ric Throssell's In a Wilderness of Mirrors

Poetry

Anthony Lawrence The Name, The Bird
Anthony Lawrence Grenough Hamlet
Vivienne Plumb Hill Hungry
Vivienne Plumb Don't Snap Those Finger Bones at Me
Les Harrop Taps
Eric Beach grief house
Anna Brooks Figs
Paul Hetherington Light
Paul Hetherington Answering Love
David Ray The Great Auden
Andrew Burke Small Change
Jan Owen Drawing Mermaids
Syd Harrex Folio of Dreams
Jena Woodhouse Whistle-stops on Anzac Eve
Roland Leach The Girl Who Dreamed that the Meaning of Life began with the Letter 'I'

Fiction

Fiona Crago The Musings of Marion
Justin D’Ath Therapy
Margaret Betts Private Matters
Joy Kilian The Escaping Housewife
David Levell Miranda Fair
Sarah French Pale Sand, Dark Sand