Cover: Hop Dac, 'Bungarra', 2023. Oil on canvas. Image provided by artist. © Hop Dac, 2023.
Westerly Issue 69.1
Volume 69 Number 1, August 2024
Dorianne Laux
Svetlana Sterlin
Dan Disney
Cindy Solonec
Cal Newton
‘The House’ by Kristian Radford
nostalgia is an earthy perfume, sinking into hunger
once every month or so I see it, lying in bed at 2 a.m.
lacuna that memory can’t fill
helpless waterlily loose on a dark lake
With writing and ideas from Andrew Sutherland, Melanie Pryor, Diane Fahey, Jill Jones, Alan Fyfe, Miriam Jones, Ellie Fisher, Siobhan Hodge, Jake Dennis, Nathan Erwin, David Stavanger, Elizabeth Smither, Sam Wren Quan Sing, Kerry Greer, Ronald Arana Atilano, Graham Kershaw, Susanne Kennedy, Grace Chan, Franchesca Walker, Michael Farrell, Lisa Collyer, Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon, Arna Radovich, Meg Drummond-Wilson, Luoyang Chen, Renee Pettitt-Schipp, Catherine Johnstone, Kevin Brophy, Nathan Hobby, Jo Langdon, Heather Taylor Johnson, Aden Curran and many others…
Contents:
Poetry
Andrew Sutherland We could have gone wandering out into the snow
Jake Dennis Memento: For Ko Mya Soe
Nathan Erwin A Dream of Salamanders
David Stavanger I've been thinking about your birth lately
Elizabeth Smither A room of Madonnas
Ronald Atilano Daitokuji
William Fox Sunday
Mike Ladd Passing the house
Graham Kershaw Sleeping Over Water: Waterfold Mill, Lumb, 1903
Arna Radovich We Slept
Cameron Lowe Reading John Berger & Jean Mohr's A Fortunate Man in the St Mary's Hall medical library
Shane Lisle Midnight XPT
Damen O’Brien MRI
Svetlana Sterlin Cusped: For Rachael
Diane Fahey The White Tower: White butterflies, 8am
Jill Jones Object Lesson: The Table
Alan Fyfe The Story of the Olivewood Bed
Miriam Jones la ñina diptych
Kristian Radford The House
Siobhan Hodge An Accident
Riley Faulds sol
j. taylor bell My Kingdom for a Mark Maggiori Print and Some Blundstones
Susanne Kennedy Mangrove fishing
Michael Farrell Mosquito Bird Central
Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon Axe Marks in Tree Trunks: After the stories of Ljube Pavlinovich
and Remy Beus
Lisa Collyer Hodge: after Thomas Hardy
Meg Drummond-Wilson Alchemy
Luoyang Chen No Longer Human
Renee Pettitt-Schipp Suspension: after Peter Boyle
Jennifer Eadie The Impact of Missionaries
Kevin Brophy About Happiness
Jo Langdon Epistolary
Dorianne Laux ”The
Cindy Solonec Naysayers
Fiction
Cal Newton A Study
Sam Wren Quan Sing Keeping Track
Franchesca Walker Street Fight
Aden Curran Sweet Potato Vine
Creative Nonfiction
Melanie Pryor The Weeping Hands
Ellie Fisher Surface Tension
Ian C Smith From the Depths
Catherine Johnstone The Red Coat
Nathan Hobby A Memorial Trail for Griff Watkins
Heather Taylor-Johnson The Truth about Yellow
Fiction
Emma-Grace Clarke Witold's Realm of Form
Kerry Greer The Red Sea
Grace Chan Digital Love, or How I Got You Back
Visual Material
Hop Dac Bungarra
Scholarly
Samuel J. Cox On the Track to Tourmaline: Randolph Stow's 'dry-souled country'
Dan Disney A Critical Villanelle for John Kinsella: singing Walter Benjamin's 'The Author as Producer' (1934) alongside Byung-Chul Han's In the Swarm (2017)
The Randolph Stow Memorial Lecture
Catherine Noske Ngaangk: those sunstruck miles
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