‘The Coffinfish’
by Debbie Lim
I’m talking the deep gill work, extended breath-holding, that rare ability when called upon, to rise up on four fins and walk away.
Volume 65 Number 2, November 2020
Cover: From Suburban Dreaming, 2020, collage. © Marite Norris, 2020. Reproduced with permission of the artist. Photograph by Marite Norris.
65.2
November 25, 2020
$24.95
issue contents
With writing and ideas from Jeanine Leane, Robert Alexander, Annabel Smith, Nathanael O’Reilly, Matthew Chrulew, and many more.
Westerly 65.2 includes writing on Drew Pettifer’s exhibition “A Sorrowful Act: the wreck of the Zeewijk”.
Contents:
Creative Non-Fiction
Caitlin Maling
In process: Seven months (almost)
Rachel Watts
A recipe for craft midpandemic
Tiffany Hastie
The Clay Face
Madeleine Hayne
Mid-Morning Funeral
Annabel Smith
Unobtainium
Poetry
Grace Yee
for the chinese merchants of melbourne
Robert Alexander
Muskrat Morning
William Virgil Davis
Deer Isle, at the Cottage
Peter Ramm
Fibro Daze
Riley Faulds
Electric All-Sky
Tim Edwards
Statistics
Ella Jeffery
Soldier crabs
Kerry Greer
Circular Time
Nathanael O’Reilly
Duck Feast
Sophia Walsh
Tessa
Anica Mancinone
Yellow canary in the dollhouse
Alison J Barton
Taper
David Thomas Henry Wright
[The future of the humanities in Australia] or; On {On Generosity, National Press Club address}
Dick Alderson
Easter 2020
Patrick Deeley
Begun Things
Poetry Debbie Lim
The Coffinfish
Andrew Sutherland
Arrival Time (in fifteen movements)
Anders Villani
Greensborough Plaza
Evangeline Riddiford Graham
Heirlooms
Megan Coupland
Middle Distance
Jeanine Leane
2020 Vision
Stephen Magee
That night the owl
Kate Cantrell
Things You Lost in 2020
Rachael Mead
The S-word
Rae White
Lifelike
Zoe Barron
Fish flesh
Rita Tognini
Emily Dickinson Chooses—
Rosemary Stevens
Behind the Beat of Wings
Carolyn Abbs
First Footprints
Katrina Kell
Donnybrook
Fiction
Matthew Chrulew
Reel (Always Already Unmade)
Lal Perera
Sacred Heart, Animal Man
John Saul
iPaint
Scott Limbrick
Flames
Andrew Roff
A Straight Line
Liam Brooks
The Education State
Atul Joshi
The Scent of Absence
Interview
Ambelin Kwaymullina, Karen Wyld and Elfie Shiosaki
Yarningup Aboriginal Women’s Storytelling
A Sorrowful Act: the wreck of the Zeewijk
Amy Lin
Wreck of the Zeewijk
Amy Lin
Glass onions, 1727
Essays
Brigid Magner and Emily Potter
‘Brothers and Sisters of the Mallee’: book talk between isolated readers across time
Zhong Huang and Wenche Ommundsen
From ‘Unreliable Man’ to ‘True Lover’: shifting images of Chinese men in writing by Chinese Australian women writers
