Westerly 33:1

Contents:

Essay

Hazel Rowley A 'Wanderer': Christina Stead
Lawrence Bourke The Rapture of Place: From Immanence to Transcendence in the Poetry of Les A. Murray
Mark Williams The "English" Patrick White: The 1930s Context of The Living and the Dead

Commentary

Garry Kinnane Reply to Graeme Kinross Smith
Anonymous Close Reading Competition

Review

Veronica Brady A review of Robert Drewe's Fortune
Andrew Lynch A review of Edmund Campion's Australian Catholics
Jim Wieland A review of The Writer's Sense of Past

Poetry

David Buchanan Stand
Robert Gray A Summer Evening
Robert Gray Small Town
Anna Lloyd Separation
Elizabeth Smither A small orchard in suburbia
Aileen Kelly Sense
Aileen Kelly Homecoming
Lauris Edmond New World Supermarket
Lauris Edmond The Big Game
Lauris Edmond The Kynges Englishe
Lauris Edmond The Wheel Turns
Lauris Edmond The Wars of the Wines
Jeff Guess The Stones
Graeme Hetherington Dream for Helen
Malcolm Levene Atlantis
David Brooks Sei Mountains Poems
David Brooks The Pines, Cottesloe
Eric Beach how I became a poet
Stephen Oliver Tails
Kirpal Singh Australian Landscape
Peter Kocan Graffiti
Peter-John Lewis Getting On
David Reiter My Daughter Gives Up Piano
Connie Barber Lady Bay Warrnambool
Connie Barber Windows
Bruce Dawe Bad Day in Gehenna

Fiction

Fiona Place The Wasting of Waves
Michael Coats The Chess Player
Margaret Sutherland Visitor's Book
Phillip Roe Christmas Dinner 1987
Lucy Sussex Quartet in D Minor
Beth Spencer Doing the Rock: June 1984