Cover: Robyn Mundy of Mundy Design from a painting by Helen Norton, The Shores of the Excommunicated
Oil on canvas (150cm x 200cm).
Westerly Issue 54.1
Volume 54 Number 1, July 2009
Stephanie Dickinson
Michael Wilding
Robert Dixon
Susan Hawthorne
Caroline Caddy
and more…
To No Avail
by Rob Wallis
Mario Stefani: Loneliness is not being alone; it’s loving others to no avail.
The glass pinning your note
down on the kitchen table
is a knife thrust through
the paper-thin layer of my
trust, the words like crackling
static on a faulty line
and all I decipher, or rather
intuit is the horror story
about finding somebody else.
Stories
Stephanie Dickinson Dalloway & Hannah’s Womb
Ramesh Avadhani The Night of the Lotus
Simone Hughes Where Mammon Meets the Desert
Joanne Riccioni The Moment in the Draughty Church at Smokefall
Marc Wohling The Give Up
Articles
Michael Wilding Expatriation, Location and Creativity
Robert Dixon Home or Away? The Trope of Place in Australian Literary Criticism and Literary History
Jenny Strauss Building the Heart or Troubling the Mind?
Perpetua Durack Clancy Eddie Burrup – A Daughter’s View
Louise Morrison The Art of Eddie Burrup
Ted Snell The Fantasist: Elizabeth Durack and Eddie Burrup
Per Henningsgaard From Soundings to Yeera-muk-a-doo:The Early Years of Fremantle Arts Centre Press 9
Charles McLaughlin Adventures in AustLit:The Goldfields Bards of Western Australia
Susan Sheridan Dorothy Hewett’s Paths to The Chapel Perilous
Review essay
Susan Midalia The year’s work in fiction
Julian Croft Australian Poetry 2008–2009
Tony Simoes da Silva The year’s work in non-fiction
Poetry
Susan Hawthorne Mark O’Flynn
Caroline Caddy Rob Wallis
Rhodora Penaranda Andrew Heath
Jean Kent Miriam Wei Wei Lo
Roland Leach Kevin Gillam
Rory Harris Marlene Marburg
Paul Fearne Jenny Schwartz
Richard Davis Fiona Wright
Shane McCauley Cameron Fuller
Ashley Capes Benjamin Cornford
Shevaun Cooley Meredi Ortega
Robyn Cadwallader Anne Elvey
Aidan Coleman Christopher Kelen
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