Westerly 47

2002


Contents:

Essay

Fiona Probyn How does the Settler belong?
Paul Dawson A Place for the Space Between: Fictocriticism and The University

Creative Non-fiction

Joan London How Deep Does The Yellow Sand Go?*
Robert Drewe Where The Yellow Sand Stops*

Review

Shirley Walker Coming and Going: A Literature of Place Australian Fiction 2001-2002
Jim Wieland A Gregarious Culture: Australian Non-Fiction, 2001-02
Lucy Dougan 'I find a space for it somehow': new poetry

Poetry

Megan McKinlay Taking the Plunge
Jennifer Compton The Sound of a Breaking String
Jack Hibberd Dear Jack
Jack Hibberd W.A. Ink
Jean Kent At The Patisserie
Roland Leach Falling
Jeff Guess The Death of Aleksandr Pushkin
Margaret Lewis '... the nightmare Life-in-Death ...' (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner)
Eugene Dubnov The Light Green Waves
Thomas Robert Barnes The Whisperers
Vivienne Plumb Dry Riser Inlet
James Quinton The Great Thing About A Hypothetical Self
David Lumsden head-on and charged with Perhaps
Marcelle Freiman Mercy
Ian C. Smith Crazy Love
Mark O’Flynn On Recalling The Shopping Complex voted Ugliest Building Two Years Running
Aidan Coleman I like Airports
Petra White Grave
Ellen Wehle Peach-skin
Ellen Wehle After Long Sleep
Bruce Dawe Drayton Cemetary Memory
Bruce Dawe Evening on a Country Road

Fiction

Jo Gardiner The Goodbye Café
Roger Vickery Double At The Dragon
Nathan Hondros Letters to a Loved One
Gretta Beveridge The lost moloch
Melinda Marshall Sloppy Seconds
John Saul Shingle Street

Memoir

Delys Bird and Dennis Haskell Editorial
Bruce Bennett Peter Cowan (1914-2002): Reflections
Bruce Bennett Dorothy Hewett (1923-2002)*

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