Westerly 43:1
Contents:
Essay
Mary Ann Hughes
The Complexity of Aboriginal Identity: Mudrooroo and Sally Morgan
Brenton Doecke
How to Read Pioneer Sagas: Miles Franklin's All That Swagger
Sue Gillett
Beyond National Imaginings: Adventuring in the Motherland in Sue Woolfe's Leaning Towards Infinity
Interview
Bruce Dawe and John Kinsella
John Kinsella in conversation with Bruce Dawe
Review
Bruce Russell
A Review of Brigid Lowry's Guitar Highway Rose
Tanya Dalziell
A Review of Deha Falconer's The Service Of Clouds
Brian Henry
A Review of Fay Zwicky's The Gatekeeper's Wife
Paul Genoni
A Review of Thea Astley's Collected Short Stories and The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow
Poetry
Barbara Brandt
Dusk comes early
Sarah French
Terminology
Shane McCauley
Fallen Pears
Peter Porter
Hometown Boys
Peter Porter
Two Part Invention
Peter Porter
Initium Sapientiae Timor Domini
Bruce Dawe
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
John Kinsella
The Iconography of Drought
John Mateer
These Moments: Mt Victoria
John Mateer
The Unimaginable
John Mateer
The Voice that isn't Mine
John Mateer
The Guide
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
The Gallimaufry
Coral Hull
The Camels at Silverton, New South Wales
Coral Hull
The Bare Hills of South Australia and Winnininnie Creek Stones
Coral Hull
Kurrajong Tree With the Warm Bright Hat of Leaves
Brendan Ryan
St Kilda Beach, Thursday Afternoon
Brendan Ryan
Poem
Brendan Ryan
Lake Mungo
Brendan Ryan
400 metres of smoke
Philip Salom
The Glass
Philip Salom
Looking for Arthur's Mum
Philip Salom
He Learnt the Wood
Lorraine Marwood
Looking at my daughter's weather
Bev Braune
Alsfeld
David Buchanan
The Sounds of Swimming
Jeff Guess
Girl Sewing
Russell Forster
Death of this day
Russell Forster
Against entropy
MTC Cronin
the last day
MTC Cronin
leaving the window
Zoltan Kovacs
Memory Of A Milking
Fiction
Lau Siew Mei
Cutting the Tight-Rope
Chris Newton
Sharks
Joy Dettman
Two Gifts for Annie
Cecily Scutt
Re-making
Dean Kiley
How to Host a Rape
Wendy James
The Purse in Her Hand
Peter Constantine
The Inheritance
Carolyn Polizzotto
Allan Daniels and the Ghost House*