Westerly 40:2

Contents:

Essay

David McCooey "Looking into the Landscape": The Elegiac Art of Rosemary Dobson
Christine Evans Between Love and Castration: One Brenda Walker's novel Crush
Cath Ellis A Tragic Convergence: A Reading of Katharine Susannah Pritchard' Coonardoo

Review

Shirley Walker A review of The Dancing Scorpion, Blackberry Season and Difficult Island
Sally Scott A review of Wallflowers and Witches: Women and Culture in Australia
Ian Saunders A review of M.Bamard Eldershaw: 'Plaque with Laurel', Essays, Reviews and Correspondence
Pamela Bagworth A review of Constructing Gender: Feminism in Literary Studies
Doireann Macdermott A review of Tilting At Matilda, Literature, Aboriginies, Women and the Church in Contemporary Australia

Poetry

Robert Love Family Photograph
Carolyn Logan Home for Sundaydinner
Andrew Lansdown Pathos
Yve Louis The Hunted in Orion
Glen Phillips The Bird Market, Canton, II
Alec Choate Matilda Bay
Graeme Kinross-Smith Curriculum Vitae
Shimon Weinroth Bittersweet
Tracy Ryan foetal
Tracy Ryan fall
Tracy Ryan echo's chamber
John L Malone Thursday 4 a.m.
John L Malone One Perfectly Round Ear
John L Malone Euglenae
Stephen Hall One of Versalius' Models
Caroline Caddy Reading Chinese Poetry
John Catlin 12 Nyoongars in a ute
Phyllis Perlstone Place
Vera Newsom Bird Singing
Robert Edmonds Superman
Stephen Lacey Red Line
Chris Andrews Aqueduct
Ramona Barry A day I know will go badly
Ron Pretty Turning Off
Norman Talbot Thirty Years Back
Ian Templeman A Few Words
Graham Rowlands Benjamin

Fiction

Julia Darling The Baboon's Keeper
Kate Lyons Back To
Robyn Ianssen An old man wandering—the exhibition postponed
Glenys Collis "Loving Husband of Jean, Loved Friend of Susanna"