Westerly 28:1

Contents:

Essay

Van Ikin Political Persuasions: "The Workingman's Paradise"
Peter Cowan A View of Race Relations: Hume Nisbet
Helen Watson-Williams French Images of Australia
David Headon Naming the Landscape—Les Murray's Literary Language

Review

Ron Shepherd A review of Nigel Krauth's New Guinea Images in Australian Literature
David Brooks A review of David Malouf's Fly Away Peter and Child's Play
Brian Dibble A review of Elizabeth Jolley's Mr Scobie's Riddle
Brian Dibble A review of Gregory Tillet's The Elder Brother
Brian Dibble A review of Nicholas Hasluck's The Hand that Feeds You
Brian Dibble A review of The Cold Front, On the Tip of my Tongue, A Flag for the Wind, Filigree in Blond, The Caught Sky, and Love Laughing Among the Trees

Poetry

Von Krump Blanketty Blanks
John Griffin At Last
Rod Moran Against the Era
Hal Colebatch Autumn morning
Andrew Donald Kings Cross, Sydney
Stephen Frampton Alice J.
Kerry Stewart Jackson Pollock's Shoes
Kerry Stewart Wittgenstein says Language is like Ice
Judith Womersley Mirror Image
Judith Womersley Last Day—Nursing Home
John Griffin Cabo Verde Orange Song
Philip Collier My Kitsch Childhood
Rory Steele Batman in the Bush
Julian Croft Letter to his son for his 11th birthday during an absence in China
Rory Steele Rock Fight at Maralunga Di Lerici

Fiction

Geoffrey Bewley Passage from India
Adriana Ellis Waiting It Out
Adriana Ellis Literary Lowlife
Judy Duffy Minding Bubby
Billy Marshall-Stoneking Conversations with the Old Men
Marion Halligan The Power of Words