Cover: I Dewa Putu Mokoh, The Antique Shop, 1991, Chinese ink and acrylic on canvas, 80 x 60cm. Courtesy of Mary Hill and the late Chris Hill. Image by Brad Coleman/John Curtin Gallery. © I Dewa Putu Mokoh 1991.
Westerly Issue 62.2
Volume 62 Number 2, November 2017
Ouyang Yu
Sampurna Chattarji
Christopher Kelen
Josephine Wilson
Huang Yuanshen
and more…
‘If You Hear a Baby Crying’
by Gay Lynch
Imagine, late one afternoon, you descend three steep, shade-filigreed staircases with your daughter to buy flowers and sandalwood chicken, the baby swaddled and cocooned in his silk sling, sleeping against her breast, to Hollywood Road, where you can find antique shops, galleries and arty coffee shops. Banyon trees with blackened trunks fan over the mossy steps, their roots insinuate fissures and sprawl over leafy stonewalls. You get caught up in the rush of people navigating the crowded pavements, finishing work or changing shift, picking up dinner from the American Groceries Supermarket or promenading in the cool evening air.
With writing, translations and ideas from: The Melbourne-Seoul Poetry Exchange, the China-Australia Writing Centre, John Mateer, Rina Kikuchi, Dai Fan, Shane McCauley, Roanna Gonsalves, Elizabeth Tan, Dennis Haskell, Isabelle Li, Fiona Morrison, Agustinus Wibowo, Timmah Ball, Yujing Liang, Shane Strange, Ella Jeffery and many more.
Issue 62.2 continues Westerly‘s focus on writing and culture from the Indian Ocean and East Asian regions. Westerly 62.2 is a curated collection of work by more than 60 writers. It includes three special features of collaborative and cultural exchange writing between an exciting selection of Australian, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese writers.
Contents:
Special Feature: The Melbourne-Seoul Intercultural Poetry Exchange
Dan Disney, Jessica L. Wilkinson and Cassandra Atherton Introduction: ‘bending in all directions everywhere’: a juddering, glimpsing, eidólonging of poets.
Lisa Gorton Yeonhui
Bonny Cassidy Ghostin
Bonny Cassidy Shields
Bo-Seon Shim Mangwon
So-Yeon Kim Mangwon-dong
So-Yeon Kim ‘Coffin Bay’
Dan Disney that winter, these protests
Dan Disney spring, Hannam-dong
Kent MacCarter Mujeongwiundong Mangwon-dong (North Korean blanket remix)
Yideum Kim Ugg Boots
Yideum Kim ‘Face Made of Steel’
Jessica L. Wilkinson Reflected
Special Feature: Contemporary Japanese Poets in Translation
Misumi Mizuki The Gift
Ishikawa Itsuko Soles—
Kawaguchi Hiromi Welcome Home
Kono Satoko Head Ache
Misaki Takako Into White Darkness
Special Feature: The China–Australia Writing Centre
Lucy Dougan Introduction
Huang Yuanshen A Passion for Australian Studies
Zhou Xiaojin A Critical Survey of Chinese Journal Articles on Australian Literature in China 1979-2016
Translated by Iris FAN Xing A Selection of Fou Chinese Women
Josephine Wilson Umbilicus
Fan Dai Saturday Evening
Elizabeth Tan A life, passing
Poetry
Christina Lloyd Dimples Whiskey
Mark Floyer Post Tropical
Sampurna Chattarji The Dictation Test: I
Sampurna Chattarji2 sunken islands.
3 kinds of rock.
Reneé Pettitt-Schipp Pinggir
Reneé Pettitt-Schipp Weaving Ketupat on Pulu Cheplok
Ross Jackson Oceania as I imagined it
Sanna Peden keunggulan
Timmah Ball Peeling
Ouyang Yu
Christopher Kelen how the hundred schools contend
Shane McCauley Gion Shimu in Snow (Hiroshige)
Mike Heald On the Theft of My New TV, or Watching with Ryokan
Elaine Barker The Finger
Shane Strange River
Dennis Haskell Days without end
Mona Zahra Attamimi Scent
Liang Yujing Call Me Eugene
Rose van Son Remembering Singapore
Shey Marque Alligatorwood
Fiction
Agustinus Wibowo The Sea
Mohammed Massoud Morsi The Home of Lost Angels
Mark Fabiano Homecoming in the Garden of the Full Moon
Katinka Smit The Blue
Roanna Gonsalves George Jarvis, black hindoo servant, Port Jackson, 1809 (Preparatory Study)
Parvati Angana God Willing
Bethany Rawson Goji no Chaimu (The five o’clock bell)
Jennifer Banyard Footprints
Ann Dombroski Siem Reap
Belinda Hermawan Xié xie
Creative Non-Fiction
Ella Jeffery A mirror in the dark
Caitlin Prince Sitting on my grandmother’s skirts
Isabelle Li The Aristotelian Questions
Rachel Watts Insha’Allah
Gay Lynch If You Hear a Baby Crying
Essays
John Mateer Invisible Genres, or on the Virtual and the Actual
Siti Sarah Ridhuan Bahasa Indonesia/Melayu & Yolngu-Matha—recognising familiar words in unfamiliar contexts
Fiona Morrison ‘A transfiguration of my local patriotism’
Dennis Haskell Fay Zwicky and ‘the riddle of the self’s existence’
Yingjie M. Cheng Modernism En Route
Reviews
Jen Bowden A review of The Permanent Resident by Roanna Gonsalves
Rebecca Harris A Review of Billy Sing by Ouyang Yu
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