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Westerly: Oceans
Online Special Issue 16
‘Oceans’, a collaboration between Westerly and the UWA Oceans Institute, is guest-edited by Prema Arasu and offers literary and poetic responses to the ocean and its depths. Contributors include scientists from the OI alongside literary luminaries and emerging WA writers.
‘This edition of Westerly underscores the critical role that creative and learned voices play in articulating our connection to the ocean. By featuring works that reflect on the ocean’s profound impact on our lives and its vulnerability to environmental threats, we aim to foster greater awareness and inspire action. This special edition emphases the vital role of the ocean in shaping our cultural and ecological landscape.’
Professor Christophe Gaudin, Director, Oceans Institute, October 2024
Westerly: Oceans, a collaboration between Westerly Magazine and the UWA Oceans Institute (OI), is guest-edited by Prema Arasu and offers literary and poetic responses to the ocean and its depths. Contributors include scientists from the OI alongside literary luminaries and emerging WA writers.
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Contents
Professor Christophe Gaudin Foreword
Prema Arasu Introduction
Daniel Juckes FromWesterly Magazine
Poetry
Ogg Hill Point Peron, Boya Kaarla
Stephen Chinna Orange Grey Whales (BOOM)
Stephen Chinna Drowning (At the Mouth)
Kerry Greer The Sky, the Sea
James Salvius Cheng The fisherman
Devin Harrison Lander Lament
Luoyang Chen Twilight
Andrew Sutherland ‘and what about your blood and your bones should the ocean never forget?’
Andrew Sutherland ‘Speak to the shape of something that may no longer have the other half of its embrace’
Yakup Niyazi ‘The Many Names of Blue Water’
Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker ‘archipelago’
Riley Faulds ‘Stand Up, Paddle’
Riley Faulds ‘my great-uncle jack’
Tineke Van der Eecken ‘On casting a ghost shark’
Scott-Patrick Mitchell ‘The Porifera’
Scott-Patrick Mitchell ‘The Acorn Barnacle’
Scott-Patrick Mitchell ‘The Ram’s Horn Shell’
Heather Blakey ‘Avant-sharke’
Monty Hoddinott ‘jellyfish’
Caitlin Maling ‘Monkey Mia, 2023, My aunt records the documentary on the dolphins’
Caitlin Maling ‘1. stromatolites, again’
Sarah Yeung ‘Queen of Heaven’
Paul Hetherington ‘Approaching the Ocean’
Luisa Mitchell ‘undead river’
Luisa Mitchell ‘The Ways Death Likes to Speak’
Alan Fyfe ‘Prime Aspect Beachfront Hymn’
Fiction
Sam Mayne Seawall
Anna Quercia-Thomas ‘Stirling Crop’
Elrond Garcia ‘Water Moves’
Creative Nonfiction
Nicole Hodgson ‘”I Feel Like I’m Part of the Ocean”’: the inter-connected world of the ocean swimmer’
Jessica White ‘Unseamed’
Ange Yang ‘Pearl Ocean Dragon Restaurant’
Prema Arasu ‘Fencing Lessons with Hermaphroditic Flatworms’
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