Westerly 28:4

Contents:

Essay

Algerina Neri Ripening in the Sun: Shirley Hazzard's Heroines in Italy
Carolyn Polizzotto
Meenakshi Mukherjee Towards Liberation: Four Recent Novels from India
Yasmine Gooneratne Contemporary India in the Writing of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Vidagdha Meredith Bennett

Review

Delys Bird A review of Who Is She? Images of Women in Australian Fiction
Bob Hodge A review of Paddy Roe's Gularabulu

Poetry

Rory Harris the woman in the seaside café
Andrew Sant Itinerant
Barry Westburg nothing happened
Jeri Kroll Dialogue
Susan Schwartz For my daughter
Susan Schwartz For my son
Shane McCauley Sydney Tower
Patricia Avery At the Incinerator
Barry Westburg total eclipse
Sarah Day Disagreement
Sarah Day Poppies
E. M. Bradstock Passenger
E. M. Bradstock For Kendall
E. M. Bradstock Whose Blues?
Rory Harris tourists arrive with their suitcases
Michael Heald The Verandah
Michael Heald The Tide
Audrey Longbottom The Colour Man
Jeri Kroll Clare Folk Festival
Diane Dodwell Dracula
Diane Dodwell Bubble
James Charlton Three Old Men, Delhi
Judith Womersley Leonardo da Vinci: anatomical drawings
Warrick Wynne Anzac Morning in Orange
Rory Steele Improbability
Robert Habost Silence
Marian De Saxe
Quintilina Evangelista Dylan
Andrew Lansdown Kestrel
Shiv K. Kumar A Husband's Homecoming
Shiv K. Kumar Central Park, Connaught Place, Delhi
Shiv K. Kumar At a Whorehouse
Shiv K. Kumar An Indian Mother's Advice to Her Daughter Before Marriage
Shiv K. Kumar Mother Teresa Feeds Her Lepers at her Home for the Destitute, Calcutta
Jayanta Mahaparta Of a Dawn
Jayanta Mahaparta River
Jayanta Mahaparta At the Summer Place of Tippu Sultan, Seringapatam

Fiction

Fairlie Szacinski O Baby Mine
Nicholas Jose The Chinese Bride
Su Gruszin Endings
Judith Forrester On the Edge of a Narrative
Tim Winton Journal from the Belly of a Whale
Shiv K. Kumar The Showblack
G. V. Desani The Merchant of Kisingarh