Westerly 30:4

Contents:

Essay

Sean Monahan Xavier Herbet's Capricornia: In Praise of the Swagman Spirit
Emmanuel S. Nelson Black America and the Australian Aboriginal Literary Consciousness

Interview

Reginald Berry and George Bowering George Bowering: The Fact of Place on the Canadian West Coast

Review

Veronica Brady A review of European–Aboriginal Relations in Western Australian History

Poetry

Lawrence Bourke Night Crossing the Brisbane River
Lawrence Bourke Magpies
Bruce Dawe A Mother Visiting
Dorothy Featherstone Porter The Floating Island
Shirley Geok-Lin Lim Pantoun for Chinese Women
Ethel Webb Deserted
Andrew Burke Angels for Charlie
Andrew Burke Angels for Alice
John Millett Son Speaks to Father
Fairlie Szacinski Her Handbag
Robert Drummond The New Marriage
John Heywood Lasseter and the Red Nebuchadnezzar
Diane Fahey Remembering Ophelia
Lily Brett I Wear Your Face
Gary Catalano Still Life With Vase
Dennis Haskell Abracadabra
Dennis Haskell Imagining I Cantori Sing Go Down Moses
Diane Fahey Incident at a Holiday Cottage At Polruan, September, 1984

Fiction

F. McGregor Cumquats
D.C McLaughlin Liquorice
Bruce Oakman Looking
Marion Halligan A Whiff of Brimstone
Andrew Lansdown Parrots for Podiatry