Westerly 27:4
Contents:
Essay
George Seddon
The Persistence of Place—Western Australian Literature
Adam Shoemaker
Fact and Historical Fiction: Ion L. Idriess and Colin Johnson*
Peter Cowan
A View of Colonial Life: Hume Nisbet*
Veronica Brady
Place, Taste and the Making of a Tradition: Western Australian Writing Today
Greg Burns
Lawson on Westralia
Paul Eggert
Lawrence, The Secret Army, and the West Australian Connexion: Molly Skinner*
Creative Non-fiction
Dorothy Hewett
The Garden and the City*
Review
David Brooks
A review of A. D. Hope's Antechinus: Poems 1975-1980
Dorothy W. Collin
A review of Penelope Hetherington's The Making of a Labour Politician
Poetry
R. G. Hay
Semi-conductors are also semi-insulators
Bruce Dawe
A Letter Home
Leon Slade
The Clef's Edge
Doris Brett
Go Forth
Diane Dodwell
Strings
Diane Dodwell
Difficulties
Diane Dodwell
Map
Diane Dodwell
Journey
Rivka Sholane
Dead City Life
Rivka Sholane
Marriage
Heather Cam
Songs for a Lover
Heather Cam
Tou Wan's Tomb
Andrew Burke
Talk in Tongues
Margaret Scott
At the Salmon Ponds
Margaret Scott
Cemetery Point
Jean Kent
Poem in August
Jennifer de Garis
Wanderer
Jennifer de Garis
Song for My Sister
Barry O’Donohue
Dream Sequence
Rod Moran
In the River's Text
Rod Moran
Elegy
Graeme Hetherington
An Untitled Painting
Graeme Hetherington
Oedipus
Mark O’Connor
Ios Beach
Mark O’Connor
St. Titus's
Rory Harris
building castles
Dale Harcombe
portrait
Fiction
Judith Lazaroo
The Shedding
Meredith Michie
Passengers
Peter Goldsworthy
Mandy's List
Beth Spencer
Atonement
J. W. Clark
Anticipating the Dawn
James Whitelaw
The Path
Russell Blackford
The Load on Her Mind
Interview
Adam Shoemaker
An Interview with Jack Davis