With writing and ideas from Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Brenda Saunders, Elleke Boehmer, Ouyang Yu, Sarah Holland-Batt, and many more.
Featuring an impressive list of writers,Westerly issue 64.1 includes special features from Red Room Poetry’s New Shoots WA project, a collection of ecologically focused essays, and Westerly‘s third crop of emerging writers from the 2018 Writers Development Program.
Contents:
Essays
Peter D. Mathews
Boochani Bound: A Promethean Meditation on Refugee Detention Centres
Ambelin Kwaymullina
Respect, relationships, renewal: Aboriginal perspectives on the worlds of tomorrow
Andrew Lynch
The Randolph Stow Memorial Lecture
Tony Hughes-d’Aeth
The Settler Colonial Farm Novel in Australia
Are You In Or Out?
Barbara Holloway
Writing on the Wind, Looking at the Local
Robyn Ferrell
Quairading 1960
Jennifer Rutherford
Homeward Flight
Fiction
Elleke Boehmer
Two Excerpts from The Shouting in the Dark & other southern writing
Simone Lazaroo
Night Shifting
Donna Mazza
The True Tail™
Siang Lu
The Abortionist
Chelinay Gates
A Sorry Business
Mel Hall
The Bird in the Door
Julie Twohig
Flight Path
Creative Non-Fiction
Brooke Collins-Gearing
Listening to the Stories Woven Around Us
Ouyang Yu
Meditation on the Pointlessness of Poetry
Rosemary Stevens
A Late Flowering
Joan Fleming
Notes Toward a Theory of Making
Liana Skrzypczak
The Whiter the Socks
New Shoots WA (Red Room Poetry)
Nandi Chinna
Anatomy of a Lignotuber
Daniel Hansen
Koolark—Home
Luke Sweedman
Ravensthorpe
Reneé Pettitt-Schipp
Jarrah (buying the block)
Scott-Patrick Mitchell
Red Flowering Gum
Poetry
Sarah Holland-Batt
Alaska
Cassie Lynch
Five Haiku
Melinda Smith
The Space Inside His Fist
Christopher Konrad
Gwen Harwood’s Nightfall
Heather Taylor-Johnson
Trees
Shey Marque
Lost Wax
Brett Dionysius
On the Death of Astronaut John Young
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Trousers
Lola McDowell nee Kickett
We are
Anne Poelina
Balginjirr, ‘A Special Place on our Home River Country’!
Brenda Saunders
Singing the Land
Shari Kocher
One Infinity
Sandra Renew
making something into nothing
Kathryn Fry
The Earth Will Outshine Us
Josephine Clarke
van Gogh’s Digger in a Potato Field
Anne Elvey
Bracing Ground
Stuart Crowe
Melaleuca Suite
Jill Jones
This Path Is Our Season Tonight
Joyce Parkes
Premise, Promise
Rose van Son
No need to always buy
Rose Lucas
Outback Bowser, 1970
Veronica Lake
Cockburn Power Station
Angela Gardner
Look Away
Writers Development Program
Kyle Orton
at the hospice
Kyle Orton
axe handle
Nicole David
Winning Sadie
Andrew Sutherland
August Instructional
Andrew Sutherland
as if you were a pharaoh
Michelle Symes
There is a Wonderful Game