Cover: Emma Phillips, ‘Untitled 11’, 2023. Inkjet print on archival cotton rag paper. Image provided by artist. © Emma Phillips, 2023.
Westerly Issue 69.2
Volume 69 Number 2, May 2025
In this issue:
John Kinsella
Rashida Murphy
Tjalaminu Mia
Carrie Chappell
Thomas Simpson
‘Entry No. 8 from my Grandmother’s Autograph Album’
by Miriam Wei Wei Lo
And yet. When I am not drunk with
scorn, I weep with longing: O to
embrace discipline! To know the
fierceness of virtue! To be a warrior
maiden, 越女 standing on a green field
beneath the open sky, with mountains
before me. To move with slow
deliberation through the sword forms:
White Crane Spreads its Wings after
Parting the Wild Horse’s Mane.
Featuring exciting new work from writers and artists across WA, Australia and the world, Westerly 69.2 showcases a range of contemporary poetry, fiction, nonfiction and, for the first time, comics, with a piece from WA comics artist Nina Dakin. Contributors to 69.2 include Carrie Chappell, Nandi Chinna, Rashida Murphy, Julie Watts, John Kinsella, Pidj Flavell, James Salvius Cheng, Sharon Mesmer, Liam Byrne, Miriam Wei Wei Lo, Hannah McCann and many others. Westerly is also proud to feature the first part of a longer work by Tjalaminu Mia, ‘Milebaar wer-moora kadidjiny won-gin wadjella-warr’, that shares stories of resistance and resilience (with parts two and three appearing in the next print issues of Westerly to come).
Contents:
Poetry
Jennifer Harrison After Heimat, a film series by Edgar Reitz, 1984
Wes Lee Naked
Julie Watts Singing
Hannah McCann Gobstopper
Lucinda Lagos Baglady/things I touch
Maree Reedman Recipes Your Son Will Love in Prison
Carrie Chappell Motherhood Poem
Carrie Chappell Motherhood Poem
Carrie Chappell Motherhood Poem
Miriam Wei Wei Lo Entry No. 8 from my Grandmother’s Autograph Album
Carolyn Abbs The Hours Before You Were Born
Jewel Oreskovich The Girl of Never Letting Go
Sam Moe La Ruptura
Toni Morgan Milo River
Alexander Bennetts everything is about something
Sharon Mesmer Void of Course Hours
Jaya Penelope the tiny graves
Satya Dash Beard River
Pidj Flavell Australian Idol
Brian Obiri-Asare The Long Afteryears of Sunlight
Zoe Barron Commitment
Shey Marque Persimmon
Gillian Martin Hinterlands
Thomas Simpson Bend
Kevin Cahill The Fringed Sandwort
Ion Corcos To Realise ‘Tree’ & ‘Mouth’
Nandi Chinna Plains Wanderer
John Kinsella Mote
Mojtaba Sanati Untitled
Fiction
James Salvius Cheng The Rat
Aharon Levy Two
Alexandra O’Sullivan In the Bin
Myles McGuire Labyrinth
Theresa Wilks Salt-finger
Liam Byrne When the Agent Calls
Michael Long The Last Chook
Tiffany Hastie The Noble Ibis
Rashida Murphy Our Women
Creative Nonfiction
Kim Bredenhann Homing
Tjalaminu Mia Milebaar wer-moora kadidjiny won-gin wadjella-warr / Age and Blak Wisdom: surviving in a white world, part I
Cil Harris Living in Parts
T. L. Tomljanovic Unrenaissance Woman
Scholarly
Paul Collis (Barkindji), Jen Crawford, Wayne Knight (Barkindji/Kunya), Emma Philipps and Paul McGee The River as Blood Line
Art Essay
Richard Read The Absence of Presence and Presence of Absence in Angela Stewart’s Paintings
Comic
Nina Dakin Mulberry Tree
Partners
