Cover: © Helen Ivory, from Heavens, yes., 2021, collage. Photograph © Helen Ivory, 2021. Reproduced with permission of the artist.
Westerly Issue 66.2
Volume 66 Number 2, November 2021
Rose Lucas
Eliza Henry-Jones
Dennis Haskell
Carol Lefevre
John Kinsella
and more…
‘Dream 5’
by Holly Isemonger
A man is driving through the countryside.
He stops and gets out of the car. He is angry,
he takes off his watch and screams
‘THIS IS AN AWFUL PLOT DEVICE’ and
hurls it into the field.
With writing and ideas from Rose Lucas, Eliza Henry-Jones, Dennis Haskell, Carol Lefevre and John Kinsella, Westerly 66.2 is imbued with the destabilising energies of a changing moment, the collective work marked by contradiction, juxtaposition and antithesis. Westerly 66.2 features work from Annabel Smith, the second of our two Mid-Career Fellows in this inaugural year of the Fellowship. It also features new work from our Writers’ Development Program, pieces which are confirming and confronting in equal measure.
Contents:
Poetry
Declan Fry Life Assertions
Reneé Pettitt-Schipp Elephant Rocks
Riley Faulds Property
Nadia Rhook something specific about this boodja
John Catlin Waiting for something
Elise O’Sullivan Yesterday it came in the form of
Marc Vincenz Switzerland 911
Emma Lee How not to build a girl
Dana Sonnenschein Darning
Amy Crutchfield Schwarzsee
Sam Morley Deployed
Francesca Jurate Sasnaitis Contents
Stephen Gilfedder Canticle for a Dancing Man
Michael Mintrom The Matisse Cut-Outs
Rose Lucas Annunciation thinking of Fra Angelico
Holly Isemonger Shadows
Carolyn Abbs Wet Check Shirt
Larry Blazek The Curly-Haired Blonde
Larry Blazek A Thin Dark-Haired Girl
Chelinay Gates Ruby
Helen Ivory Heavens, yes.
Rachael Petridis On Making a Garden
Shey Marque Where fragile things meet ordinary air
Kirwan Henry Last appointment of the day
Ron Wilkins blind men at the gym
Isi Unikowski Pumping Station
Steve Denehan Of Service
Angela Costi The Heart of the Advocate
Noemie Huttner-Koros police liaison
Fiction
Carol Lefevre Life Support
Eliza Henry-Jones Teeth and Knucklebones
Kim Aikman Two Seasons
Soon Jones Amateur Female Impersonator
Belle Butler Prevailing Wind
Jasper Paterson Tree in the Rock
Wendy Brandmark The Building of the Half Shut Eyes
Creative Non-Fiction
Clare Murphy The Kissing Disease
Danielle O’Leary God bless those in the livestream
Josie/Jocelyn Deane Renée Vivien in the Second/Various Persons
Josie/Jocelyn Deane Sad Bakkhai
Josie/Jocelyn Deane Free Sonnet
Josie/Jocelyn Deane Uncertain Dawn
Josie/Jocelyn Deane Free Sonnet
Josie/Jocelyn Deane A Cry
Josie/Jocelyn Deane Two Sonnets
Mid-Career Fellowship
Annabel Smith Defective
Essay
Gemma Nisbet Writing from Life and the Limits of Privacy in Gabrielle Carey’s Only Happiness Here
Dennis Haskell Edwin Thumboo’s Votive Pen
Writers’ Development Program
Lisa Collyer Maiden Shame
Lisa Collyer In Search of Loss
Adele Aria Fractals of Domestic and Family Violence
Ben Mason Revival of a Dying Town
Review Essay
John Kinsella Points of Emphasis: Vociferate|詠 by Emily Sun
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