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