Westerly 27:1

Contents:

Essay

Noel Macainsh Aestheticism and Reality in the Poetry of Kenneth Slessor
Jim Legasse Telling A Self: More on Moorhouse's Family
Veronica Brady Yet another letter to Joseph Furphy
Hendrick Kolenberg Printmaking in Western Australia

Interview

Bruce Bennett Peter Porter in Profile
Tom Shapcott An Interview with Michael Ondaatje*

Review

Jim Legasse A review of Thomas Shapcott's Stump & Grape & Bopplenut
Graeme Turner A review of Veronica Brady's A Crucible of Prophets
Diana Brydon A review of Margaret Atwood's Bodily Harm
Veronica Brady A review of William Warnock's The Samurai Kites
Veronica Brady A review of Patrick White's Flaws in the Glass: A Self-Portrait
Dorothy Collin A review of Jan Carter's Nothing to Spare: Recollections of Australian Pioneering Women and A. B. Facey's A Fortunate Life

Poetry

Rod Moran Gardener
W. Green On Ski-ing
Cliff Gillam Waiting for the Cyclone
Dudley De Souza Watching Military Manoeuvres from a Library Window
Dudley De Souza Laughing Buddha
Dudley De Souza A Non-political Comment
Dudley De Souza The Convert
Cliff Gillam In Different Rooms
Robyn Rowland One Time
Vera Newsom Landscape and Figures
Peter Porter The Castle in Sight
Peter Porter An Exequy
Peter Porter The Missionary Position
Peter Porter Little Harmonic Labyrinth
Robyn Rowland Aftermath
Michael Ondaatje High Flowers
Carole Wilkins Megalove
Carole Wilkins See-through Man

Fiction

Moya Ellis Feathers
Helen Bulley The Sick Child
P. A. Jacobs Terry's Truck
Victor Kline Student at Law
Rhonda Pelletier Twilight to Dawn
Noel Macainsh It was Difficult
Elizabeth Jolley Hep Duck and Hildegarde the Meat