Westerly 35:1

Contents:

Essay

John McLaren The Power of the Word: Salman Rushdie and The Satanic Verses
Helen Watson-Williams Finding a father: a reading of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses

Interview

C.D. Yeabsley Interview with Bruce Dawe

Review

Graeme Turner A review of The Penguin New Literary History of Australia
Lawrence Bourke A review of Thomas Shapcott's Selected Poems 1956-88
Neil Roper A review of Robert Adamson's The Clean Dark
Leigh Dale A review of Jack Davis: A Life Story and John Pat and Other Poems
Margot Luke A review of EXPRESSWAY
Van Ikin A review of Brian Matthews' Quickening and Other Stories
Veronica Brady A review of Bill Neidjie's Story About Feeling

Poetry

Jill Jones Storm window
Jill Jones The silence of the suburbs
Paul Hetherington Reflections
Timoshenko Aslanides Confidence
Shane McCauley South Beach
Christopher Houston A Farmhouse Burning
Christopher Houston For Words Are Wise Men's Counters
Matthew Schulz Earthbound
Diane Fahey Cross-Country Walk
Les A. Murray The Ballad of the Barbed Wire Ocean
Francis Healy Coming Down
Lawrence Bourke Meetings
Lauris Edmond The problems of the articulate middle classes
Lauris Edmond Death by Accident
Ron Pretty Show Time
Ron Pretty Ned Kelly takes his love to the beach
David P. Reiter Skiing Bush Lake
Carol Seitzer Fat Loose Thighs
Elizabeth Smither Miriam's wedding dress
Graeme Wilson Elephant
Leon Slade Against the Glass

Fiction

Christine Godfrey Something is Lost
Nikki Gemmell On and On
Tara Aurakzai Untitled
Anthony Curran Not Breaking Glass
Anthony Curran Demolition Job
Anthony Curran Hospitality
Lucy Jean Mrozik Doves Calling
Louise Davenport The Hollow Axis
Michelle West The Lost Friend
Adriana Ellis The Courtship of Louisa O'Farrell