Westerly 68.1

Contents:

Poetry

Wes Lee wearing the night
Stephen Muecke ‘flash up, flare up, sparkle, coruscate, glint, gleam, glimmer, streak, twinkle, and so on’
Hannah Reynolds Idiot Maths vs the Natural Bridge
Brenda Saunders The Disappearing
Josie/Jocelyn Suzanne A telephone pole shaped like a crucifix, sundown
Isabella G. Mead Megafauna
Gemma Nethercote Way Rituals
Jennifer Allen Some People’s Ghosts
Jonno Revanche Recovery
Patricia Reid did a bloody bear take a bath in that
Kate North Fluid Dynamics
Jan Napier the thylacine on my tea towel
Michael Farrell How Do They Live
Jarad Bruinstroop First Road Trip
Coral Carter breakfast with my brother
Christopher Konrad Found
DeWitt Henry On Scars
Svetlana Sterlin Apocalyptic sunsets at the дача
Brendan Ryan Taking it Slow
Graham Kershaw Valley
Luoyang Chen Stone Flower
Ion Corcos Strange to be Ignorant about Life
Miles Hitchcock On the Day of Her Death, the Spirit of Queen Elizabeth II Passes through the Town of Kalgoorlie, Wangkatha Country, Western Australia
Julie Watts Short—
Toby Davidson Floating Over Atlantis
David Bunn A thousand pieces
Ellen Shelley An Island
Rhian Healy The park after dark Or, the djiti djiti speaks
Alicia Sometimes Portrait at Howqua River
Petra White Elegy (12)
Luisa Mitchell How to check you’re still alive
Madeleine Dale Taking Men Off the Ice An alternate history of the Franklin Expedition
Sampurna Chattarji Day 6

Creative Nonfiction

John Kinsella Labelled, I Became a Puppet Theatre of Protest
Kathryn Imray History Is Dead People
Kathryn Hummel Shark Week
Ouyang Yu My Sixteen Grandfathers

Writers Respond to the John Stringer Prize 2022

Cass Lynch Wheat and Moon
Rachel Robertson A Gesture Towards Steam
Helena Kadmos Leaning In
Jo Pollitt all ways fire she gives

Fiction

Alan Fyfe Autobiography of a Corridor
Paul Fiocco Honeyeater
Jo Langdon Parting Points
Tiffany Ko 嫲嫲 Maa Maa
Bryant Apolonio All Persons Living or Dead
Kelvin Kellman A Brief History of My Name
Jumaana Abdu Children Go Straight to Heaven When They Die

Poetic Constellations

Elfie Shiosaki, Guest Editor Note on Westerly's 'Poetic Constellations'
Charmaine Papertalk Green Ilgari Aba / Grandmother Sky

The Randolph Stow Memorial 2023

Andrew Sutherland Autobiography of a Sickness

Essay

Laura Warren To Be Both/And

The AAWP/Westerly Life Writing Prize 2022

Suzanne Hermanoczki Doors
Lily Chan avatar