‘The Ones After Them’
by Peter Rose
‘It’s hard to put it into words—it’s been so long.’
‘You should have told me.’
‘I suppose the gist is—’
‘Gist? …We’ve got gists.’
‘I guess I’m curious.’
‘Curious?’
Volume 62 Number 1, July 2017
Cover: Nina-Marie Thomas, Ten, 2017.
© Nina-Marie Thomas.
62.1
July 13, 2017
$14.95
issue contents
With over 50 authors including Fay Zwicky, Peter Rose, Jill Jones, Tony Birch, and John Kinsella, the work collected in Westerly 62.1 is complex and powerful. Unthemed, it ranges in scope and focus to deal both with questions of violence and trauma, but also present moments of beauty and hope.
Issue 62.1 also introduces the work of the participants in the Writers’ Development Program 2016.
Contents:
Poetry
Brendan Ryan
Everything Becomes Metaphor
Tricia Dearborn
From The change: some notes from the field
Carol Jenkins
Les Lolitas
Renee Pettitt-Schipp
Redtails
Dick Alderson
Moon at Midnight
Nandi Chinna
Immolation
Grace Yee
tachycardia
Marjorie Main
Marri and Milk
Jessica Wraight
Titanium
Maureen Gibbons
For Judy Cassab: portrait artist (1920–2015)
Paul Hetherington
Ascension
Rose Hunter
watermelons
John Mateer
From João
Charlotte Guest
Pleistocene Soup
Claire Potter
Beneath Parliament Hill
Adam Ford
Thursday Morning
Eileen Chong
What I Know
Eileen Chong
Fault
John Kinsella
A New Norcia Subset
Rachael Petridis
Repartee
Carolyn Abbs
The Silver Bracelet
Jill Jones
Small Things
Jill Jones
Gone In Terrain
Anna Ryan-Punch
Trainspotting
Heather French
At Rest
Paul Knobel
Conversation as you died
Fiction
Stephanie Bishop
In the Wild the Male is Always the Most Beautiful
Susan Midalia
Women in fragments
Tony Birch
Sissy
Rosemary Stevens
Let the Heart Move the Hand
Helena Kadmos
Public Relations
Peter Rose
The Ones after Them
Tanya Dawes
Dumping Ground
Emily Paull
Sister Madly Deeply
Graham Kershaw
Treasury
Creative Non-Fiction
Fay Zwicky
Ambushed By Hope
John Weller
Wellington Location 205
Stevi-Lee Alver
Memory Refrained
Danielle Clode
When in Rome: An Essay in Ruins 140
Christine Burrows
Rejection (behind a thin grey curtain)
Caitlin Maling
Travelling Through the Dark: Six Weeks in Oregon.
Daniel Juckes
The Australian Flatback Sea Turtle
Dorian
Breaking the Cycle
Essays
Annika Herb, Brooke Collins-Gearing, Henk Huijser
Of Windows and Mirrors
Hannah McGlade
Reading Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence—Aboriginal Child Removal in 2017
Peter Mathews
Art, Beauty, and the Problem of Consciousness in Tim Winton’s Breath
Review
Nandi Chinna
Review of Border Crossing
Writers’ Development Program 2016
Miah De Francesch and Catherine Noske
A Note on the Writers’ Development Program
Chris Arnold
plane, rail
Chris Arnold
Taxodium distichum (detail)
Rachelle Rechichi
Hundred Acre
Sophia O’Rourke
Skip-A-Rope
Alexis Lateef
Bonfire on South Beach
Alexis Lateef
Peacock
Amanda Gardiner
Smoke
