Westerly Issue 59.1

Stories

M. T. O’Byrne The Day Before Christmas Island
Shokoofeh Azar The woman who went to stand there
Kate Elkington A Boxful of Prophets
Mark O’Flynn Turning the Other Cheek
Zdravka Evtimova Happiness is a Simple Thing
Henry Ward The Orator
Graham Kershaw Stone Cold English

Essays

Rohan Wilson Anxiety of Reference in That Deadman Dance
John Burbidge Gerald Glaskin Revisited
Nicholas Walton-Healey Where Blood Comes From
Jane Vaughan Form, Artifice and Contemporary Australian Poetics: John Tranter’s ‘The Anaglyph’

Review Essays

Robyn Mundy The Year’s Work in Fiction
John Hawke ‘Distant and kindred analogies’ in recent Australian poetry

Poems

Diane Fahey Louise Carter
Beth Spencer Paul Summers
Stu Hatton Ross Jackson
Robert James Berry Carol Millner
Corey Wakeling Ian C. Smith
Rose van Son Julie Watts
Yann Toussaint Siall Waterbright
Gao Pengcheng (trans. Ouyang Yu) Ron Pretty
Graeme Hetherington Knute Skinner
Ross Donlon Fran Graham
Jonathan Hadwen Geoff Page
Wes Lee B. R. Dionysius
Gary Allen