‘A Unique and Necessary Form’
by David Malouf
Story-telling, the pleasure of sitting in close company and listening to a story, allowing oneself to float free in the moment and enter, both in the senses and in imagination, into the story’s events so that the story becomes our own, must be one of the oldest and earliest of our pleasures—a function of that uniquely human faculty in us, the capacity to step beyond the actual into the possible.
Volume 63 Number 2, November 2018
Cover: Chaikom, Colourful Autumn Leaf. © Chaikom.
63.2
November 22, 2018
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With writing and ideas from David Malouf, Julie Dowling, Rose Lucas, Ambelin Kwaymullina, Paul Hetherington, Michael Farrell, Anne Alvey, and John Kinsella and Fay Zwicky, and many more.
Featuring an impressive list of over 40 writers, issue 63.2 of Westerly features a special on women’s poetry, with special features from The Northam Noongar Poetry Project and a selection of the finest prose poetry from women writers around the world.
Contents:
Essay
David Malouf
A Unique and Necessary Form
Wang Guanglin
Writer as Translator: on translation and postmodern appropriation in Nicholas Jose's The Red Thread: A Love Story
Ambelin Kwaymullina
Literature, Resistance, and First Nations Futures: storytelling from an Australian Indigenous women's standpoint in the twenty-first century and beyond
Beibei Chen
Bilingualism and Cultural Translation: on the dilemma of migration in Ouyang Yu's 'The English Class'
Fiction
Wayne Price
If You Can't See Me, I Can't See You
Troy Dagg
The Pool
Kira McPherson
The Mañana Approach
Emily Paull
From Under the Ground
Jane Downing
Caution Submerged Steps
Creative Non-Fiction
Rose van Son
All of the Relatives
Cindy Solonec
Removed: an excerpt from 'Shared lives on Nigena country'
Mohammed Massoud Morsi
Tevy
Pete Mawhinney
The Otway's Panther: a creative non-fiction
The Northam Noongar Poetry Project
Deborah Moody
Bilya Kep
Yvone Kickett
A Bush Walk
Janet Kickett
Story of My Life
Cyndy Moody
Humble Man
Julie Wynne
Rise Up and Be Strong
Poetry
Anne Elvey
(without you)
Rose Lucas
Namatjira's Ghost Gums
Paul Hetherington
Fractures
Michael Farrell
Rackoffteurs
Steve Evans
Take It
Ella Jeffery
Hotel del Coronado
Sue Peachy
Robin, Morghyn, Mother
Brendan Ryan
Ampilawatja
Roland Leach
Wreckage
Julie Watts
Like Icarus
Chloe Hosking
abrolhos excavation
Rita Togini
Visitations
Nadia Rhook
Settler Meets Sky
Dan Stavely
A Steely Nerve
Geoff Page
A Wave
Tim Edwards
New Waves
Carolyn Abbs
A Victory Grin
Amy Lin
The Architecture of Grief
Kathryn Hummel
Gracenotes & Endnotes
International Prose Poetry
Carrie Etter
The Message
Vahni Capildeo
Divination: Linen and Dolphins
Mariko Nagai
Occupied State
Jane Monson
The Patchwork Boy
Holly Iglesias
Suitable for Framing
Interview
Julie Dowling and Elfie Shiosaki
Sovereignty, Self-Determination and Speaking Our Freedoms: an interview with Julie Dowling
John Kinsella and Fay Zwicky
Interview with Fay Zwicky (1995)
Review
Fiona Dorrell
Age of Dust: a review of Walking with Camels: The Story of Bertha Strehlow
