Westerly 36:1

Contents:

Essay

Ian Adam The Referentiality of the Deconstructed: Gerald Murnane's "The Plains"
Veronica Bracy An Approach to Vigilance: The Politics of Nicholas Hasluck's The Country Without Music

Review

Lurline Stuart A review of The Poet's Discovery
Trudi Tate A review of David Brooks' The Sheep and the Diva and Other Stories
Bob White A review of The Macmillan Anthology of Australian Literature
Peter Cowan A review of Descent of Spirit: Writings of E.L. Grant Watson
Sara Dowse A review of Beverley Farmer's A Body of Water
Hal Colebatch A review of Anthony Lawrence's Dreaming in Stone
Roland Leach A review of Gwen Hardwood, Blessed City: Letters to Thomas Riddell 1943

Poetry

Dorothy Hewett Lines to the Dark Tower
Warrick Wynne Rendezvous
John Kinsella Batak House and Mushroom Girl
John Kinsella mondrian/laboratory/mounting pedestals
John Kinsella The Millenarian's Dream
John Kinsella Incident of Honeyeaters
John Kinsella the insulation of the new york sonnet
Margaret Barbalet The Grandfather's House
Faye Davis Ghost Town
Faye Davis Sugar Loaf Rock
Bill Schaffer White Imagination
Bill Schaffer Marriage
Diane Beckingham To an Odalisque
Nicolette Stasko 98.6
Virginia Bernard Intimacy
Connie Barber The Multicultural Kore
Connie Barber Summer
Roland Leach The J Poems
Heather Cam Crisis 1962
Lesley Fowler grand/mother & daughter/aunt
Bruce Dawe Senryu-2
Kristopher Saknussemm Away Games
Stephen Hall Reconstruction
Stephen Hall Signs of Life
Stephen Hall Synopsis
Stephanie Bennett After "The Bush" for Brett Whiteley
Mark Miller My son, aged 5 months
Ian Templeman In a Foreign Tongue
Matcham Caine The Avon Valleys
Winifred Weir At 'Grandma's Beach'
Michael Spindler The Peacocks
Michael Spindler In the Courtyard of the Arts

Fiction

David P. Reiter Akha Night Market
Justin D’ath Freshwater Crocodiles
Kathy Prokhovnik The Extra Delicacy of Freshness
Carol Mara Dirty Linen
Andrew Burke Skin Deep
Susan Storm Necklace of Tears
Maxine Moreland A Song for the Singing