‘Labelled, I Became a Puppet Theatre of Protest’
by John Kinsella
No single meaning ever belongs to
a single word. A single word could be
endless words, endless sounds,
endless meanings. A name could shift
meaning and characteristics. A word
could dissolve into ‘pure sound’.
Volume 68 Number 1, July 2023
Cover: Matthew McAlpine, 'Of beauty scorched and bare', 2022. Acrylic, sand, fluorescent pigment, binder and cast acrylic on canvas. Photograph by Salty Davenport. © Matthew McAlpine, 2022.
68.1
July 3, 2023
$24.95
issue contents
With writing, artwork and ideas from Charmaine Papertalk Green, Ouyang Yu, John Kinsella, Jumaana Abdu, Stephen Muecke, Andrew Sutherland, Brenda Saunders, DeWitt Henry, Michael Farrell, Wes Lee, Alan Fyfe, Gemma Nethercote Way, Luisa Mitchell, Bryant Apolonio, Kate North, Ellen Shelley, Sampurna Chattarji, Jo Langdon, Luoyang Chen, Julie Watts, Tiffany Ko, Christopher Konrad, Cass Lynch, Rachel Robertson, Helena Kadmos, Jo Pollitt, Coral Carter, Suzanne Hermanoczki, Petra White, Kathryn Hummel, Madeleine Dale and many others…
Contents:
Poetry
Wes Lee
wearing the night
Stephen Muecke
‘flash up, flare up, sparkle, coruscate, glint, gleam, glimmer, streak, twinkle, and so on’
Hannah Reynolds
Idiot Maths vs the Natural Bridge
Brenda Saunders
The Disappearing
Josie/Jocelyn Suzanne
A telephone pole shaped like a crucifix, sundown
Isabella G. Mead
Megafauna
Gemma Nethercote Way
Rituals
Jennifer Allen
Some People’s Ghosts
Jonno Revanche
Recovery
Patricia Reid
did a bloody bear take a bath in that
Kate North
Fluid Dynamics
Jan Napier
the thylacine on my tea towel
Michael Farrell
How Do They Live
Jarad Bruinstroop
First Road Trip
Coral Carter
breakfast with my brother
Christopher Konrad
Found
DeWitt Henry
On Scars
Svetlana Sterlin
Apocalyptic sunsets at the дача
Brendan Ryan
Taking it Slow
Graham Kershaw
Valley
Luoyang Chen
Stone Flower
Ion Corcos
Strange to be Ignorant about Life
Miles Hitchcock
On the Day of Her Death, the Spirit of Queen Elizabeth II Passes through the Town of Kalgoorlie, Wangkatha Country, Western Australia
Julie Watts
Short—
Toby Davidson
Floating Over Atlantis
David Bunn
A thousand pieces
Ellen Shelley
An Island
Rhian Healy
The park after dark Or, the djiti djiti speaks
Alicia Sometimes
Portrait at Howqua River
Petra White
Elegy (12)
Luisa Mitchell
How to check you’re still alive
Madeleine Dale
Taking Men Off the Ice An alternate history of the Franklin Expedition
Sampurna Chattarji
Day 6
Creative Nonfiction
John Kinsella
Labelled, I Became a Puppet Theatre of Protest
Kathryn Imray
History Is Dead People
Kathryn Hummel
Shark Week
Ouyang Yu
My Sixteen Grandfathers
Writers Respond to the John Stringer Prize 2022
Cass Lynch
Wheat and Moon
Rachel Robertson
A Gesture Towards Steam
Helena Kadmos
Leaning In
Jo Pollitt
all ways fire she gives
Fiction
Alan Fyfe
Autobiography of a Corridor
Paul Fiocco
Honeyeater
Jo Langdon
Parting Points
Tiffany Ko
嫲嫲 Maa Maa
Bryant Apolonio
All Persons Living or Dead
Kelvin Kellman
A Brief History of My Name
Jumaana Abdu
Children Go Straight to Heaven When They Die
Poetic Constellations
Elfie Shiosaki, Guest Editor
Note on Westerly's 'Poetic Constellations'
Charmaine Papertalk Green
Ilgari Aba / Grandmother Sky
The Randolph Stow Memorial 2023
Andrew Sutherland
Autobiography of a Sickness
Essay
Laura Warren
To Be Both/And
The AAWP/Westerly Life Writing Prize 2022
Suzanne Hermanoczki
Doors
Lily Chan
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