With writing, artwork and ideas from Kerry Greer, Aileen Walsh, Kimberly L. Becker, Philip Mead, Jackson, Daniel Ray, Rikki Santer, John Saul, Kristin Sanders, Peter D. Mathews, Pidj Flavell, Emily Tsokos Purtill, Josephine Wilson, Prema Arasu, Jarad Bruinstroop, Miso Bell, Gayelene Carbis, Nathan Curnow, Jaes Bidwell and Melissa Kruger, Natalie Damjanovich- Napoleon, Shey Marque, Roseanne Dingli, the 2022 Westerly Writers’ Development Program participants and many others.
Contents:
Poetry
Kimberly L. Becker
Heimweh
Shey Marque
Patterns, Inconsistencies & Microaggressions
Gayelene Carbis
Red Horse by the River
Jurate Sasnaitis
Post-mortem | Poland
Rosie Moana Pickett
coloured diamond glowing lights
Philip Neilsen
Petrol Station
Meesha Williams
The Man Who Became a Street Name
Jackson
My father’s toolbox
Rikki Santer
House of Bears
Stuart Barnes
How To Be a Good Gay in a Small Town
Nathan Curnow
The Wolf, the Goat and the Cabbage
Rhian Healy
Ode to Weeds
Rita Tognini
The Season of Silence
Nakita Humes
Healing
Ellie Fisher
Bodily Offerings
Peter Burges
A Rebirth
Kristin Sanders
Image 12. The tutorial
Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon
More Flies Than Stars
Andrew Menken
The (Mostly) Suburban Senryu Cycle
Pidj Flavell
The Shapes and Shakes of my Hands
Kristian Radford
Diurnal
Brenda Saunders
Yaama Ngunna Baaka: Dancing the River
Emma Jayne Willson
Trespassers
Shelly Beamish
Love begins
Joan Mazza
Adronitis*
Jarad Bruinstroop
Late Summer
Zoe Barron
Lloyd hates women
Gale Acuff
Anyone who doesn’t like me is a
M. T. O’Byrne
Red Rattler Days
Ryan Mattern
Tree House
Fiction
Donna Mazza
Chick
Martin Kovan
Prometheus
John Saul
Working with hippos (or how to get on with animals in times of pandemic)
Daniel Ray
Takeaway
Emily Tsokos Purtill
Précis
Rosanne Dingli
Phrase
Miso Bell
Bye Bye Birdie
Jo Langdon
Bird Streets
Creative Non-Fiction
Jessie Berry-Porter
I write down my father and chase myself
Dani Netherclift
When alive, my brother bore no resemblance to mermaids
Aileen Walsh
Writing for Role-Playing
Olivia De Zilva
when the world shouts your name don’t forget to answer it
Kerry Greer
A Silhouette in Grey: life in the aftermath of suicide
Rose van Son
A Room for Solace
Mid-Career Fellowship
Scott-Patrick Mitchell
November 15th, 2017 (a fragment)
Scott-Patrick Mitchell
drag this poem
Scott-Patrick Mitchell
Rubber Room
Writers’ Development Program
Emma Crook
End of the Line
Priya Kahlon
Everlasting
Clare Testoni
Graveyard Account
Review Essay
Peter D. Mathews
The Peace Offering: concluding Steven Carroll’s Eliot Quartet
Philip Mead
Toby Davidson, Good for the Soul: John Curtin’s life with poetry
Essay
Sophie Finlay
Ecofeminism, New Materialism and Lyric Subjectivity in Bonny Cassidy’s Final Theory and Megan Kaminski’s Gentlewomen
Randolph Stow Memorial Lecture 2022
Josephine Wilson
Not given, but taken
Prema Arasu
A Short History of the Ocean
Art Essay
Jaes Bidwell and Melissa Kruger
perceive
Jaes Bidwell and Melissa Kruger
be wary
Jaes Bidwell and Melissa Kruger
witness
Jaes Bidwell and Melissa Kruger
worship