Cover: Oliver Mills, Walking On Air, 2014, acrylic paint & texture gel on canvas, 40.5 cm × 50.5 cm (h, w). Creative Enabler, Hans Kreiner. Photographer, Shannon Sullivan.
© Oliver Mills 2014.
Westerly Issue 64.1
Volume 64 Number 1, July 2019
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Brenda Saunders
Elleke Boehmer
Ouyang Yu
Sarah Holland-Batt
and more…
‘Listening to the Stories Woven Around Us’
by Brooke Collins-Gearing
We all have our own stories. Yet the one thing we all have in common is the land we live on. We wake up every day in a land that, since the beginning of time, has embodied all the knowledge that is needed to nourish and sustain every animate and inanimate being that rests on it. This knowledge has been kept, protected and nurtured by its custodians and some of it, the layer that is available to all, has been shared, is being shared. It only requires us to listen.
With writing and ideas from Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Brenda Saunders, Elleke Boehmer, Ouyang Yu, Sarah Holland-Batt, and many more.
Featuring an impressive list of writers,Westerly issue 64.1 includes special features from Red Room Poetry’s New Shoots WA project, a collection of ecologically focused essays, and Westerly‘s third crop of emerging writers from the 2018 Writers Development Program.
Contents:
Essays
Peter D. Mathews Boochani Bound: A Promethean Meditation on Refugee Detention Centres
Ambelin Kwaymullina Respect, relationships, renewal: Aboriginal perspectives on the worlds of tomorrow
Andrew Lynch The Randolph Stow Memorial Lecture
Tony Hughes-d’Aeth The Settler Colonial Farm Novel in Australia
Are You In Or Out?
Barbara Holloway Writing on the Wind, Looking at the Local
Robyn Ferrell Quairading 1960
Jennifer Rutherford Homeward Flight
Fiction
Elleke Boehmer Two Excerpts from The Shouting in the Dark & other southern writing
Simone Lazaroo Night Shifting
Donna Mazza The True Tail™
Siang Lu The Abortionist
Chelinay Gates A Sorry Business
Mel Hall The Bird in the Door
Julie Twohig Flight Path
Creative Non-Fiction
Brooke Collins-Gearing Listening to the Stories Woven Around Us
Ouyang Yu Meditation on the Pointlessness of Poetry
Rosemary Stevens A Late Flowering
Joan Fleming Notes Toward a Theory of Making
Liana Skrzypczak The Whiter the Socks
New Shoots WA (Red Room Poetry)
Nandi Chinna Anatomy of a Lignotuber
Daniel Hansen Koolark—Home
Luke Sweedman Ravensthorpe
Reneé Pettitt-Schipp Jarrah (buying the block)
Scott-Patrick Mitchell Red Flowering Gum
Poetry
Sarah Holland-Batt Alaska
Cassie Lynch Five Haiku
Melinda Smith The Space Inside His Fist
Christopher Konrad Gwen Harwood’s Nightfall
Heather Taylor-Johnson Trees
Shey Marque Lost Wax
Brett Dionysius On the Death of Astronaut John Young
Chris Wallace-Crabbe Trousers
Lola McDowell nee Kickett We are
Anne Poelina Balginjirr, ‘A Special Place on our Home River Country’!
Brenda Saunders Singing the Land
Shari Kocher One Infinity
Sandra Renew making something into nothing
Kathryn Fry The Earth Will Outshine Us
Josephine Clarke van Gogh’s Digger in a Potato Field
Anne Elvey Bracing Ground
Stuart Crowe Melaleuca Suite
Jill Jones This Path Is Our Season Tonight
Joyce Parkes Premise, Promise
Rose van Son No need to always buy
Rose Lucas Outback Bowser, 1970
Veronica Lake Cockburn Power Station
Angela Gardner Look Away
Writers Development Program
Kyle Orton at the hospice
Kyle Orton axe handle
Nicole David Winning Sadie
Andrew Sutherland August Instructional
Andrew Sutherland as if you were a pharaoh
Michelle Symes There is a Wonderful Game
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