Westerly 69.2

May 2025


Contents:

Poetry

Jennifer Harrison After Heimat, a film series by Edgar Reitz, 1984
Wes Lee Naked
Julie Watts Singing
Hannah McCann Gobstopper
Lucinda Lagos Baglady/things I touch
Maree Reedman Recipes Your Son Will Love in Prison
Carrie Chappell Motherhood Poem
Carrie Chappell Motherhood Poem
Carrie Chappell Motherhood Poem
Miriam Wei Wei Lo Entry No. 8 from my Grandmother’s Autograph Album
Carolyn Abbs The Hours Before You Were Born
Jewel Oreskovich The Girl of Never Letting Go
Sam Moe La Ruptura
Toni Morgan Milo River
Alexander Bennetts everything is about something
Sharon Mesmer Void of Course Hours
Jaya Penelope the tiny graves
Satya Dash Beard River
Pidj Flavell Australian Idol
Brian Obiri-Asare The Long Afteryears of Sunlight
Zoe Barron Commitment
Shey Marque Persimmon
Gillian Martin Hinterlands
Thomas Simpson Bend
Kevin Cahill The Fringed Sandwort
Ion Corcos To Realise ‘Tree’ & ‘Mouth’
Nandi Chinna Plains Wanderer
John Kinsella Mote
Mojtaba Sanati Untitled

Fiction

James Salvius Cheng The Rat
Aharon Levy Two
Alexandra O’Sullivan In the Bin
Myles McGuire Labyrinth
Theresa Wilks Salt-finger
Liam Byrne When the Agent Calls
Michael Long The Last Chook
Tiffany Hastie The Noble Ibis
Rashida Murphy Our Women

Creative Nonfiction

Kim Bredenhann Homing
Tjalaminu Mia Milebaar wer-moora kadidjiny won-gin wadjella-warr / Age and Blak Wisdom: surviving in a white world, part I
Cil Harris Living in Parts
T. L. Tomljanovic Unrenaissance Woman

Scholarly

Paul Collis (Barkindji), Jen Crawford, Wayne Knight (Barkindji/Kunya), Emma Philipps and Paul McGee The River as Blood Line

Art Essay

Richard Read The Absence of Presence and Presence of Absence in Angela Stewart’s Paintings

Comic

Nina Dakin Mulberry Tree

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