Westerly 35:3
Contents:
Essay
Robert Drewe
Into the Desert for Once
W.H. New
Rearticulating West
David Hough
Australian Provincialism Writ Large*
Andrew Ross
Theatre in the West
David Kerr
Portraying the Aboriginal People: the role of "Aboriginal and Islander Identity"
Michael Ackland
Towards "The Shadow": Henry Kendall and the mid-century Crisis of Faith
Delys Bird
Australian Studies Roundup
Review
Kieran Dolin
A review of Aboriginal Culture Today
Paul Kovesi
A review of Andras Domahidy's Shadows and Women
Mudrooroo Narogin
A review of Postmodernism: A Consideration of the Appropriation of Aboriginal Imagery
Terri-ann White
A review of Shirley Geok-lin Lim's Modern Secrets
Bob Hodge and Vijay Mishra
A review of Mudrooroo Narogin's Writing from the Fringe
Michael Heald
A review of Tom Flood's Oceana Fine
Bruce Bennett
A review of Giovanna Capone's Incandescent Verities: The Fiction of Hal Porter
Veronica Brady
A review of Pat Lowe with Jimmy Pike's Jilji: Life in the Great Sandy Desert
Poetry
Nicolette Stasko
Lament
John Kinsella
Magpie Larks
Andrew Burke
warble orble ardle oodle
Steve Evans
Wattle
Peter Porter
An Address to the Stars
Peter Porter
Memorandum to my Daughters
Peter Porter
Vecchio Libro, Senti
Peter Porter
Autobiography
Robert Gray
The Girls
Robert Gray
Renga
Robert Gray
Passage
Robert Gray
"Out rowing…"
Christopher Kelen
Socialism in one Poem
Peter Rose
The Classicist's Birthday Tribute
Peter Rose
Dexterity
Harry Aveling
Sleeping Platform
Harry Aveling
4th December 1984
Harry Aveling
Mogul Night Flute-Music
Graeme Wilson
At Ofu Bay
Graeme Wilson
Potential Bodhisattva
Chin Woon Ping
Love in the Afternoon
Chin Woon Ping
Some Women Say
Chin Woon Ping
To My Second Aunt
David P. Reiter
Good Morning, Bangkok
David P. Reiter
Washing Her Back
David P. Reiter
Fighting Beetles
Heather Cam
Nightfall
Heather Cam
Haiku: Night-gift
Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
To a Poet Who Died Young
Penelope Layland
Cave of Fishes
Michael Dugan
Remembering Charles Buckmaster
Kathielyn Job
Flight
Debra Stokes
Healing
Selwyn Pritchard
Hegemony in a Country Churchyard
Terry Harrington
A Pink Christmas
Carol Seitzer
Cab Fare
Jean Kent
Practising
Andrew Lansdown
The Spider Orchids
Fiction
Gloria Frydman
Holi
Lorraine O’Brien
Alla prima