Westerly 38:2

Contents:

Essay

Brenton Doecke P.R. Stephensen, Facism
Michael Ackland A Martial Code: Meditation and Action in the Verse of Adam Lindsay Gordon

Review

Michael Denholm A review of Sandy Kirkby's Sight Lines, Women's Art and Feminist Perspectives in Australia
Beate Josephi A review of Barbara Hanrahan's Michael and Me and the Sun
Susan Miller A review of Philip Salom's Feeding the Ghost
Andrew Burke A review of Nicolette Stasko's Abundance
Veronica Brady A review of Kim Scott's True Country

Poetry

Kirpal Singh Me
Kirpal Singh The house
Diane Fahey Butterflies on a Bush Trail
Hal Colebatch Riverside Drive
Douglas Barbour for 'Branch of almond tree in bloom' (1890):
Lawrence Bourke Refectory Night-Cleaner
David Buchanan 1 in every 100
Bruce Dawe Ward M4
Tanya Dalziell Future Looks Like the Forties
Michael Heald The Hair
R.G. Hay Another of those obligatory poems
Stephen Gilfedder Rainbow Fish Dreaming
Alan Urquhart No Way Out of Dawn
Joan McBreen A Walled Garden in Moylough
Joan McBreen Veronica

Fiction

Carolyn Polizzotto My Aunt's Story
Craig Scanlan The Haggle
Carmel MacDonald-Grahame Keys
Samantha Boswell Gooseberry
Pam Harvey Lift Dreams
Steve Holden Eternal Youth
Michelle Neal The Baby Makers
Rose Moxham Souvenir
Bruce L Russell Nineteen Murri Words for Mother
Judy Seagar Arthritis Ward