Westerly 36:2

Contents:

Essay

Nicholas Mansfield "A Pleasant, Meaningless Discord": Helen Garner's The Children's Bach
Patsy Cohen and Margaret Somerville Reflections on Ingelba
Paul Gillen Jack Lindsay's Romantic Communism

Review

Alec Choate A review of R.F Brissenden's Sacred Sites
Philip Salom A review of Gary Anson's Pamphlet Poets Series One
Lawrence Bourke A review of Katherine Gallagher's Fish-rings on Water
Chris Wallace-Crabbe A review of Laurie Duggan's Blue Notes and Peter Rose's The House of Vitriol
Amanda Nettelbeck A review of Aspects of Australian Fiction
Andrew Burke A review of Livio Dobrez's Parnassus Mad Ward

Poetry

Faye Davis The Guest Speaker
Faye Davis The House at Caversham
Faye Davis Rite
Barbara Giles Personal Space
Graeme Wilson Yes
Graeme Wilson Official in Old Age
Graeme Wilson Telling the Truth
Graeme Wilson Red Light District
David Buchanan Portrait of PJ
Catherine Conzato Still life on the sink
Andrew Lansdown That Bird
Alan Alexander Sailors
Stephen Magee Bondi Beach, midwinter afternoon
David Buchanan Looking off the Southern Edge
Martin R. Johnson Elegy: for my father
Bruce Dawe Mortal Instruments
Bruce Dawe The Dark Room
Anne Fairbairn A Litany of Light
Alec Choate Russell Square, London
Catherine Conzato Abdullah's shirt
Pat Boran Lower Main Street
Catherine Conzato Falcons
Hal Colebatch Grass stems at the Zoo

Fiction

Hal Colebatch The Return
Jamie Stewart The Projectionists
Carmel Bird Woman in Dark Clothing
Ann Dombroski Jealous
Susanne Gervay And Then Paris
P.M. Marsh One
Hugh Roberts Colour me Black
Gail Bell Thirroul, 1970
Rosaleen Love Strange Things Grow at Chernobyl
David Cohen People and how they Respond to Bagpipes in the Evening
Yve Louis The Walk (New Street, 1937)
Nikki Gemmell Here is a Woman
Brigid Lowry Bitter-Sweet