Westerly 53

Contents:

Essay

Tony Hughes-d’Aeth Islands of Yesterday: The Ecological Writing of Barbara Yorkman
Lee Kofman Writing Between Languages
Kim Scott A Noongar Voice, an Anomalous History
Toby Davidson Francis Webb in Western Australia

Interview

Steve Brock Interview with Ouyang Yu

Review

Roger Bourke The Year's Work in Fiction: 2007-2008
Ron Blaber Non-Fiction 2007-2008
Meriel Griffiths Making the leap: Australian Poetry 2007-2008

Poetry

Erinn Batykefer Photo Album
Meredi Ortega A Shack in Five Parts
Graeme Hetherington Lost
Paul Hertherington Blackberries
Graham Rowlands Palm or Plane
Jeffrey Guess In the Library
Louis Armand Temporary Measures
Robert James Berry Rises
Robert James Berry Sub Antarctic
Andrew Burke The Limits of My Language are the Limits of My World. Wittgenstein
Bruce Dawe This New Century
Ron Pretty Kate Dancing
Diane Fahey Before the Heat
Barry O’Donohue Cut Grass
Chris Andrews Continuous
Shane McCauley Polarity
Kevin Gillam Flottle
Anna Ryan-Punch Ten Caresses
Les Wicks The Table
Knute Skinner Image
Ian C. Smith The Riddle of Shakespeare
Andrew Lansdowm Ream
Roland Leach Pushing
Kent MacCarter Twenty-five Unbroken Bottles of Champ
Christopher Kelen Memoir of a Strolling Player
Ouyang Yu Digging
Ouyang Yu Hanging Branches: Lyrics from the Ming Dynasty

Fiction

Mark O’Flynn Red Shoes
Zdravka Evtimova Pale
Mike Williams The Gig
Jennifer Robertson Heat
Helena Pastor Broken Glass
Ouyang Yu 'The Australian War'
Kate Sunners The Man who Wrote