Westerly 40:1

Contents:

Essay

Philippa Kelly Transgressive Spaces: Helen Garner's Cosmo Cosmolino
Lee Spinks Austerities and Epiphanies: A Note on Fantasy and Repression in Patrick White's "Five-Twenty"
John Mateer The Use of Burning Swans: the South African background to an 'iconoclastic' language
Nicholas Birns Beyond Disillusionment: Frank Moorhouse's Grand Days and Post-Colonial Idealism

Review

Heather Neilson A review of Drusilla Modjeska's The Orchard
Les Harrop A review of The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry
David McCooey A review of The Oxford Book of Australian Religious Verse
Tony Simoes da Silva A review of Sneja Gunew's Framing Marginality: Multicultural Literary Theory
Charles Edelman A review of Penny Gay's As She Likes It: Shakespeare's Unruly Women
Michael Denholm A review of Gina Merger's Janet Frame, Subversive Fictions
Collin O’Brien A review of Ron Davidson's High Jinks at the Hot Pool

Poetry

Jean Kent Dances Above the Hardware
Ouyang Yu Word Prison: A Lesson
Ouyang Yu Fuck You, Australia
Ouyang Yu A Lesson on Eyes
Andrew Sant For My Daughters
Heather Cam The Weasel
Rory Steele It Can't Happen to Me
Rory Steele Walkout
Alice Friman Callahan's Bride
Bronwen Morrison A Painter Poses
Kenneth C Steven Once Before
Clayton Hansen Dances at the Hall
Dale Harcombe Home's Kid
Sue Moss pidgin pieta
Graham Rowlands Unopened Poppies
David Ray Fireworks
Richard Hillman Bush Moniter
John L Malone The Colour Purple
R.G. Hay A local habitation
Lisa Bellear (Noonuccal) The Smoker
Justin Macdonnell Siding

Memoir

Alison Puchy-Palmos Dame Mary Durack

Fiction

Rosanne Dingli The Pomegranate Tree
Ruth Callaghan Ariadne's Labyrinth
Steven Miller It Happened to Matthew Again
Carolyn Logan The Woman Who Turned Into a Lizard
Catherine McIver Amanda's Flowers
Kathryn Goldie Jane and her Gun
Dionne Newton Under the glass slide