Westerly 42:3

Contents:

Essay

Alan Urquhart Seeking the missing person, or reading the poetry of John Forbes
Kevin Brophy Endings: Reproducing Originality
Michael Ackland The Lesson of Barambogie: Richardson's Response to Schopenhauer in The Fortunes of Richard Mahony
Raymond Aaron Younis Written Among the Living: Patrick White and the Zaddikim

Review

Tony Hughes-D’aeth A review of Simon Ryan's Cartographic Eye
Terri-Ann White A review of Lucy Frost and Marion Halligan's Those Women who go to Hotels
Kieran Dolin A review of Leigh Dale's The English Men: Professing Literature in Australian Universities
Matthew Allen A review of Chris Healy's From The Ruins of Colonialism: History As Social Memory
Ron Shapiro A review of David Carter's A Career In Writing: Judah Waten and the Cultural Politics of a Literary Career
Tony Hughes-D’aeth A review of Alec Choate's The Wheels of Hama and Jill Jones' The Book of Possibilities

Poetry

Bruce Dawe Ladybird, Ladybird
Gig Ryan Not ecstasy, but anxiety
Gig Ryan Achilleus to Odysseus
Peter Bibby Walking up the Shadow
Michael Sariban The Deluge
Peter Minter Describing Phenomena
Alec Choate Wind Among the Leaves
John Tranter Slaves
John Tranter Thanks, Joe
John Tranter Paid Meridian
Andrew Sant Days of Incompletion
Graeme Hetherington Horse
Kevin Hart The Letter
Kevin Hart Brisbane
Kenneth C Steven Listening
Diane Fahey Serving Maid
Alan Alexander Hester Siding
David Lumsden Slice of two lives
David Lumsden Girlfriend Weeping
David Lumsden Seeing each other again
Alice Friman Speaking of Cats

Fiction

Renée Webster Breath of a Season
Daniel Davies The Sounds of Summer
Kenneth C Steven Ard Mor
Kenneth C Steven Treasure
Alan Davies Letters from a Distant Country
Kate Lyons The car theory
Meaghan Delahunt T-Song
Andrew Burke Singing Under A Full Moon
Brigid Lowry Sisters
Nick Smith Served cabbage when all you wanted was potato