Damian Crosbie, ‘Westerly 70 Mosaics’, 2025, digital. © Damian Crosbie
Westerly: Archive Reflections
Online Special Issue 17
Guest edited by Catherine Noske (Westerly Editor 2015–2023).
New poetry, reflections and essays from Caitlin Maling, Jazz Money, John Kinsella, Madeleine Watts, Elfie Shiosaki and more.
Alongside, the issue also holds space to recognise the memory and legacy of Charmaine Papertalk Green Smith, in republishing two poems that she contributed to Westerly (OSI14): djinda.
‘The work collected in this issue contemplates Westerly’s history specifically, but also the idea of the archive more generally, and what it means to reflect. Authors were invited to contemplate reflection as a theme and/or respond creatively to Westerly’s archive, assessing its limitations as well as celebrating its strengths.’
Catherine Noske Guest Editor, November 2025
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this issue contains the names and voices/writings of people who have died.
Westerly: Archive Reflections (OSI17) is guest edited by Catherine Noske.
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Contents
Catherine Noske From the Editor
Poetry
Jazz Money ‘Conversational’
Caitlin Maling ‘Swan River Poem No. 75—I: Counting the Swans’
Tracy Ryan ‘Traces’
Amy Lin ‘Abracadabra’
Kaya Ortiz ‘It has been a long time’
Cassandra Atherton ‘The Phantasmagoria of Bodies’
Reflections
Elfie Shiosaki and Catherine Noske ‘Editors Correspond: a dialogue about First Nations writing’
Becky Chilcott and Damian Crosbie ‘Invisible Craft: ten years of typographic design for Westerly’
Delys Bird and Lucy Dougan ‘”Let all the blossoms bloom”: an interview with Delys Bird’
In Memoriam
Charmaine Papertalk Green ‘Ilgari Aba/Grandmother Sky’
Charmaine Papertalk Green ‘Another Milky Way Journey’
Essay
Madeleine Watts ‘Baby Pictures’
John Kinsella ‘Reflections: phase changes in a personal register’
Seth Malacri ‘Lost/Burned: The Archive as a Site of Transgender Erasure’
Partners
