With writing and ideas from Rose Lucas, Eliza Henry-Jones, Dennis Haskell, Carol Lefevre and John Kinsella, Westerly 66.2 is imbued with the destabilising energies of a changing moment, the collective work marked by contradiction, juxtaposition and antithesis. Westerly 66.2 features work from Annabel Smith, the second of our two Mid-Career Fellows in this inaugural year of the Fellowship. It also features new work from our Writers’ Development Program, pieces which are confirming and confronting in equal measure.
Contents:
Poetry
Declan Fry
Life Assertions
Reneé Pettitt-Schipp
Elephant Rocks
Riley Faulds
Property
Nadia Rhook
something specific about this boodja
John Catlin
Waiting for something
Elise O’Sullivan
Yesterday it came in the form of
Marc Vincenz
Switzerland 911
Emma Lee
How not to build a girl
Dana Sonnenschein
Darning
Amy Crutchfield
Schwarzsee
Sam Morley
Deployed
Francesca Jurate Sasnaitis
Contents
Stephen Gilfedder
Canticle for a Dancing Man
Michael Mintrom
The Matisse Cut-Outs
Rose Lucas
Annunciation thinking of Fra Angelico
Holly Isemonger
Shadows
Carolyn Abbs
Wet Check Shirt
Larry Blazek
The Curly-Haired Blonde
Larry Blazek
A Thin Dark-Haired Girl
Chelinay Gates
Ruby
Helen Ivory
Heavens, yes.
Rachael Petridis
On Making a Garden
Shey Marque
Where fragile things meet ordinary air
Kirwan Henry
Last appointment of the day
Ron Wilkins
blind men at the gym
Isi Unikowski
Pumping Station
Steve Denehan
Of Service
Angela Costi
The Heart of the Advocate
Noemie Huttner-Koros
police liaison
Fiction
Carol Lefevre
Life Support
Eliza Henry-Jones
Teeth and Knucklebones
Kim Aikman
Two Seasons
Soon Jones
Amateur Female Impersonator
Belle Butler
Prevailing Wind
Jasper Paterson
Tree in the Rock
Wendy Brandmark
The Building of the Half Shut Eyes
Creative Non-Fiction
Clare Murphy
The Kissing Disease
Danielle O’Leary
God bless those in the livestream
Josie/Jocelyn Deane
Renée Vivien in the Second/Various Persons
Josie/Jocelyn Deane
Sad Bakkhai
Josie/Jocelyn Deane
Free Sonnet
Josie/Jocelyn Deane
Uncertain Dawn
Josie/Jocelyn Deane
Free Sonnet
Josie/Jocelyn Deane
A Cry
Josie/Jocelyn Deane
Two Sonnets
Mid-Career Fellowship
Annabel Smith
Defective
Essay
Gemma Nisbet
Writing from Life and the Limits of Privacy in Gabrielle Carey’s Only Happiness Here
Dennis Haskell
Edwin Thumboo’s Votive Pen
Writers’ Development Program
Lisa Collyer
Maiden Shame
Lisa Collyer
In Search of Loss
Adele Aria
Fractals of Domestic and Family Violence
Ben Mason
Revival of a Dying Town
Review Essay
John Kinsella
Points of Emphasis: Vociferate|詠 by Emily Sun