Westerly 59:1

Stories

M.T. O’Byrne The Day Before Christmas Island
Shokoofeh Azar The woman who went to stand there
Kate Elkington A Boxful of Prophets
Mark O’Flynn Turning the Other Cheek
Zdravka Evtimova Happiness is a Simple Thing
Henry Ward The Orator
Graham Kershaw Stone Cold English

Essays

Rohan Wilson Anxiety of Reference in That Deadman Dance
John Burbridge Gerald Glaskin Revisited
Nicholas Walton-Healy Where Blood Comes From
Jane Vaughan Form, Artifice and Contemporary Australian Poetis: John Tranters's 'The Anaglyph'

Review Essays

Robyn Mundy The Year's Work in Fiction
John Hawke Distant and kindred analogies' in recent Australian poetry

Poems

Diane Fahey Heatwave
Louise Carter Pleasure in Elysium
Beth Spencer Foraging
Paul Summers the shortest day
Stu Hatton Sestina
Ross Jackson The Garden Outside
Robert James Berry Red Flower
Carol Millner Settling
Corey Wakeling The Exile
Ian C. Smith No Mercy on Robinsons Road
Rose van Son Meatworks, Caversham
Julie Watts My Mother's Sculpture
Yann Toussaint Notes from the Thames Path
Siall Waterbright Fore Word
Gao Pengcheng Disappearance
Gao Pengcheng Beach in Winter
Ron Pretty The Flowering Hills
Graeme Hetherington With James McAuley and Georg Trakl In Vienna
Knute Skinner Use
Ross Donlon Death in Rome
Fran Graham I Hear You, Jackson Pollock
Jonathan Hadwen The storm settles into rain
Geoff Page Nine Words
Wes Lee Tiny Father Circa. 1997
B.R. Dionysius The Resurrection
Gary Allen The ambassadors