Westerly 29:2

Contents:

Essay

Noel Macainsh Point-of-view and Consequent Naturalism in the Novels of Henry Handel Richardson
Bruce Bennett Concepts of 'the West' in Canadian and Australian Literary Studies*
Gillian Whitlock Queensland: the state of the art on 'the last frontier'
Peter Cowan J. M. Harcourt and the Nineteen-Thirties

Review

John Webb A review of poetry by Robert Drewe, Beverly Farmer, James McQueen, Frank Moorhouse and Bruce Pascoe
Shane McCauley A review of Philip Salom's The Projectionist
Ross Bennett A review of Strephyn Mappin's Chiaroscuro
Helen Watson-Williams A review of Robert Pascoe's Western Australia's Capital Suburb, Peppermint Grove

Poetry

Rory Harris I recall holding strands of your hair
Rory Harris smash & grab
Colleen Burke Given the Odds
Jenny de Garis Moon over Mullalyup
Penny Lee Coming to Broome
Diane Fahey Assignation
Mike Greenacre Proverbial Sojourn
Alec Choate Wittecarra Creek
Alec Choate Odalisque with Red Trousers
Elly McDonald Tidal
Rory Steele It Still Seems Odd Sometimes
Carole Wilkins Alien
Graeme Hetherington Christmas Eve
Graeme Hetherington Renison Bell (8)
R. B. Soaba Port Moresby in High Savannah
R. B. Soaba Here
R. B. Soaba Houses Over Water
R. B. Soaba Before the Wall
John Heywood Lucretia
Michael Dugan Spin any coin
Margaret Scott Walking to Cape Raoul
Elly McDonald Janie
Carole Wilkins Laser
R. G. Hay Once I might have written a love poem
Stephen Edgar The Fitting
Elizabeth Smither On first taking on an animal

Fiction

Geoffrey Bewley East is East
James Whitelaw A Friend in the Square
Norald Lovsak Mr. McVey's Mantra
Anne Maree Wilshire The Feminist and the Catepillar
Julie Lewis Sequence
Pauline Larard Monte Bello
Faye Davis Paisley Print
David McGuigan Joe
Jennifer Compton The Man Who Died Twice

Interview

Kirpal Singh Russell Soaba: An Interview

Creative Nonfiction

Chris Wallace-Crabbe The Surreal Decade: Swaying in the Forties