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