Westerly 56:1
Contents:
Essay
Bruce Bennett
The Civilising Value of the Humanities
Page Richards
The Lyric Impulse in Dennis Haskell's All the Time in the World
Chris Wortham
An Uncertain Smile: humour in the poetry of Dennis Haskell
Isabela Banzon
Writing the Ordinary: Poets in Conversation
Clare Rhoden
Innovation meets tradition in Brenda Walker's 'The Wing of Night'
Michael Auckland
'Matisse is jammed with confidence': Painting and creative inspiration in the early writings of Murray
Creative Non-fiction
Megam McKinlay
Paradigms of Identity/Jumbles of Words
Blaze Kwaymullina
Country Roads, Take me Home
Review
Paul Hetherington
Sometimes Difficult, Always Diverse: Aspects of contemporary Australian Poetry 2010-11
David Whish-Wilson
The Year's Work in Fiction
Poetry
Bruce Dawe
To a Notable Literary Archaeologist
Shirley Geok-lin Lim
The Mouse
Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Picasso
Geoff Page
The Journal
Miriam Wei Wei Lo
Ars Poetica
Kit Kelen
Poetry
Adrian Caesar
After a Child's Death
Rob Wallis
Love Letter
Diane Fahey
Red-Capped Plover
Jonathon Hadwen
The Night Keeper
Matthew Hall
Cairn(s): Arcadian Nocturne
Annamaria Weldon
The memory of earth
Janet Jackson
Necessary
Caitlin Maling
Sundays
Anthony Lynch
Introduced
Susan Hawthorne
Sanskrit
Aidan Coleman
From Stroke Poems
Graham Kershaw
A Different Sea
Helen Gildfind
Strange Teacher
Ross Donlon
Boys Dying
Roland Leach
Middle East Sonnets
Christopher Konrad
Letters
Jo Mills
Persephone
Yann Toussaint
Watching a Young Kestrel Learning to Fly
Bob Morrow
Coup de Grace
David Buchanan
Sacha
Peter Bibby
Money Street
Mark O’Flynn
Bower Birds
Helen Hagemann
Perth Poinsettia
Renee Pettitt-Schipp
Last Time I Saw You Your Hair Was Longer
Maria Takolander
47 Degrees
Graeme Hetherington
West Hobart Winter, 1955
Rachael Mead
Decansos (sestina)
Fiction
Pat Jacobs
Open Heart
M.G. Michael
The Yellowing Pages of the Almanac
Brooke Dunnell
Heart Attack
Kate Whitfield
The Thirsty World
Tim McCabe
An Allegory of the Crow Man, Curlew and Frog