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Everyone at Westerly was saddened to hear of the death of David Malouf, one of the giants of Australian letters. …
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In an interview with Ralph Wessman, Tasmania-based poet Anne Kellas comments that poetry can be ‘a way to do the …
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Easter 2020 Dick Alderson Dick Alderson’s work has appeared in various journals including Westerly and Australian Poetry Journal, and in …
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Ladies’ Rest and Writing Room by Kim Kelly is one of the 2023 winners of the Finlay Lloyd’s annual 20/40 …
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‘Lately the thought sneaks up on me and pulls me under, and I can’t deny it: nothing we do now …
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The title of Jen Craig’s Wall refers to the protagonist’s long-proposed artistic project: a ten-metre wall intended to ‘give strong …
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Happy Together: bridging the Australia–China divide is co-authored by the distinguished Australian historian David Walker, the senior Chinese translator of Australian …
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Transgressive? Laughable. In Kill All Normies, academic and nonfiction writer Angela Nagel writes that transgression has been embraced as …
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Petra White’s sixth poetry collection, That Galloping Horse, is a showcase of free verse poems expressed with often chillingly beautiful …
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The debut novel of literary scholar Deborah Pike, The Players, is a warm, clear-eyed, funny and tender exploration of the …
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Catherine Noske, past Editor of Westerly On Thursday September 4, news broke that Meanjin, Australia’s second-oldest literary journal, was to …
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‘If You Cried, They Gave You Something to Cry About’: Graeme Dixon’s liberation songs When Noongar poet Graeme Dixon’s Holocaust …
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Koraly Dimitriadis, perhaps more than most poets, comes with a host of assumptions or ‘labels’—feminist, Cypriot-Australian writer, ‘a hysterical woman’: …
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Voices We Need to Listen To I first encountered Grace Yee’s poetry in 2021 when Alvin Pang and …
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Gwen Harwood AO (1920–1995) was a poet and librettist. She published over 420 works, including 386 poems and thirteen librettos. …
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The re-examination of our collective history: Monument and truth-telling
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A note from the editor The page constraints of print publishing are one of the constant hindrances of editing a …
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Pidj Flavell has yet to learn what ‘too many irons in the fire’ means. She’ll write anything: poetry (Cordite, Westerly), …
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Theresa Wilks is currently an Honours student studying at Edith Cowan University. Her major is Creative Writing and her thesis …
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A note from the editor The page constraints of print publishing are one of the constant hindrances of editing a …
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Featuring exciting new work from writers and artists across WA, Australia and the world, Westerly 69.2 showcases a range of …
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Clément Marot (23 November 1496–12 September 1544) was a French Renaissance poet. Randolph Stow (28 November 1935–29 May 2010) was born …
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Although this book’s speaker wishes ‘to rewrite the working class into history’ (‘Class Consciousness’, 1331) and its seventy-five poems are …
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Katia Ariel’s The Swift Dark Tide is a marvel. Shortlisted for the 2024 Stella Prize, it is a miracle of …
