Westerly 58:2

Beauty 

Dennis Haskell Introduction: The Challenge of Beauty
Sally Quinn Some Thoughts on Beauty and Bliss: A Conversation with Three Contemporary Artists
Carmel Macdonald Grahame On Behalf of Nature Poetry
Carmel Macdonald Grahame Clutching at Petals
Carmel Macdonald Grahame Oedo Chapel, Korea—
Cathryne Sanders The Beauty of the Australian House.
Laurie Steed Wallpaper
Ali Alizadeh The Beauty of a Dead Child: Art, Violence and Negativity
Simon Jackson Burning Barbie
Jake Roseman Eight Years and Four Months
Vivienne Glance On drawing a stranger, unobserved
Josephine Clarke Karri Hazel
Susan Lever Strange and Beautiful: David Foster's Sons of the Rumour
Deborah Hunn Endless Winter
Julie Watts The Queue
Miriam Wei Wei Lo If I Want to Keep Beauty
Dennis Haskell Make It New?

Reminiscence   

John Barnes A Marriage of True Minds: Leonard and Elizabeth Jolley

Poems 

Jennifer Compton Like a Butterfly
John Kinsella Overtures of Travel and Home
George Gott I Was a Boy
Anna Ryan-Punch Treasure maps
Miro Sandev the obsolete is a rose
Michael Farrell A Title Is A Promise
Simon Perchik *
Rachael Petridis Rufous Night Heron
Rebecca Law Impartations
Duncan Richardson under a fresh sky
Jeff Guess When I Was Young
Andy Kissane Dylan Thomas incontrovertible
Mags Webster Plot
Dick Alderson Listening in Bed
Bev Braune no longer a lonely place
Mark O’Flynn Big Edna
Matthew Rodgers Hands
An Qi Leaves in Beijing
An Qi Beginning with July
Geoff Page The Exhalations
William Byrne Perfume Letter
Graeme Hetherington Hotel Terminus, Vienna
Karen Throssell A Truffula Tree? (apologies to Doctor Seuss)
Ted McCarthy Stroke
Rose Lucas Under the Wave
Carolyn Abbs age sixteen
Sami Rafiq Lessons For a Muslim Girl
Deborah Westbury Julia and the Four Dollar Clock

Stories

Lachlan Prior Let's Dance
Fikret Pajalic Dinosaur
Gabriel Don Somewhere Else