Westerly 59:2

Stories

David Whish-Wilson The Cook
Robyn Mundy Everlastings
Mike Williams Ironing with Leonard Cohen
Jose Dalisay Jr The Clarity of Things
Francesca Sasnaitis City of Ghosts
Simone Lazaroo Flying Home
Laurie Steed One and Only
Nicholas Hasluck Deaths Foretold
Richard Rossiter Spirit Places
Rashida Murphy The Moon Still Speaks
Rosie Barter Not Sweet, Not Sweet at All
Susan Midalia The Inner Life
Michelle Michau-Crawford Happy Haven Holiday Park

Histories

John Barnes Beginnings: 1956-1965
Elizabeth Webby Consolidation: 1966-1975
Dennis Haskell The Phoenix Rises Repeatedly: Westerly 1976-1985
Delys Bird The Golden Years: 1986-1995
Paul Genoni From the Nineties to the Noughties: 1996-2005
Tony Hughes-d’Aeth The Little Magazine in the Digital Age

Personal Essays

Marcella Polain Micheline Aharonian Marcom and the hamam shoes
Mags Webster A pattern more complicated': breaking out of words in order to break into them
Robert Drewe Old Rags and Mojitos: A Varadero Notebook

Poetry

Fay Zwicky In Rehab.
Shirley Lim Palimpsest
Shirley Lim Home stretch
Fabiyas M V My Illiterate Mother
John Mateer Three Cape Town Sonnets
Nandi Chinna The Green Jumper
Peter Bibby The Young Cousins
Caitlin Maling Donnelly River, 13
Meg McKinlay Welcome Stranger
Meg McKinlay Nagoya Plumbing
Virginia Jealous Mute herdsman
Renee Pettitt-Schipp Pinggiran
Alamgir Hashmi Numbers
Vivienne Glance One by one
Zhu Jian Some and Others
Carolyn Abbs the knitting
Jake Dennis Evening
Maree Dawes You must never begin your work with a knot
Fiona Britton The knives are whispering in the draw
Andrew Taylor The Hypergeum
Rozanna Lilley Wedgwood
Rozanna Lilley Funny Face
Alec Choate Pyramid Climb
Shane McCauley Isla Tiburina
Sue Clennell Harriet Shelley
Dick Alderson The Garden of Rodin
Dick Alderson Instance of Beauty on Stock Road
Veronica Lake Stained Glass Saint
Murray Jennings Motionless in Madrid
Josephine Clarke the old hay rake
Catherine Wright if
Andrew Lansdown Missing
Jeff Guess War Cemetery
Graham Kershaw The Striker's Eye
Christopher Konrad Port Talbot (ad honorem Michael Sheen)
Christopher Konrad Black Cockatoo
Kevin Gillam Thursday
Isabela Banzon Zoo Sonnet
Isabela Banzon Three Girls
Paul Hetherington Squirrel
Lucy Dougan London, Misbooked
Barbara Temperton I am no wolf
Meredi Ortega Tu Fu, there were gorges but I couldn't see any boat
John Kinsella Reintroduction
Julie Watts This Winter's Day
Alexis Lateef Sunflowers
Shey Marque a day breaks in two rocks
Bruce Dawe Savouring Early Morning
Rachael Petridis Beach Light
Alvin Pang Notes Toward an Aubade
Roland Leach Small Detonations
Edwin Thumboo Bruce
Scott-Patrick Mitchell caladenia discoidea
Flora Smith The Burghers of Calais