Westerly 39:3

Contents:

Essay

Brenton Doecke Australian historical fiction and the Popular Front: Katharine Susannah Pritchard's goldfields trilogy
Horst Priessnitz Dreams of Austerica: A Preliminary Comparison of the Australian and the American Dream
Paul Gillen The Last Man of Letters?

Review

Susan Ash A review of Jill Jones' The Mask and the Jagged Star and Flagging Down Time
David McCooey A review of John Mateer's Burning Swans and Kate Llewellyn's Crosshatched
Georgia Richter A review of F. Sionil Jose's Three Filipino Women
Heather Neilson A review of Marian Eldridge's The Wild Street Flowers: Alvia Skerritt Stories
Tony Simoes da Silva A review of Adib Khan's Seasonal Adjustments

Poetry

Andrew Burke The Pianoless Quartet
Andrew Burke After Reading
Mary Bell Mapping Gender
Marion Campbell White Widow Shopping
Geoff Page Human Interest
Mary Ward To My Coy Mistress, My Sony Walkmaster
Wendy Jenkins Tidal Power
Steve Evans Travelling Salesman
Tanya Aquino Honey
Phil McManus Decent Hard Working Australian At A Café On A Wednesday Afternoon
Martin R Johnson Lunchbreak/life-pause
Jesse Lee Kercheval At Last, The Messenger Has Come
Shane McCauley Sailing from Byzantium
David Kelly Weightlift
Dorothy Williams Mouse
Chocolate Waters The Wild Man of Ninth Avenue
Ouyang Yu A Blind Fortune-teller Tells Me That
Tracy Ryan Psych Ward
James Simmons Living Together

Fiction

Rosanne Dingli Hymn
Jessie Bate Victory
Paddy O’Reilly Inheritance
Bronwyn Licqurish I Can Hear You
Ethel Webb Bundell Night at the Office
Roslyn Mullins The Way You Appear To Me