Westerly 33:2

Contents:

Essay

Peter Cowan Gold and the Novel: Western Australia in the 1880s and 1890s
Dorothy Hewett Silence, Exile and Cunning: the Poetry of Randolph Stow*
Kirsten Holst Petersen and Anna Rutherford Sojourn in the Sky: Conventions of Exile in Philip Salom's Sky Poems*
Sandra Burchill The Early Years of Katharine Susannah Prichard: The Growth of her Political Conscience
Veronica Brady The Return of the Repressed: J.B. O'Reilly and the Politics of Desire
Cliff Gillam Hesperian Varieties: New Western Australia Drama at the 1988 Festival of Perth
George Seddon Cuddlepie and other Surrogates

Review

Tom Gibbons A review of P.A.E. Hutchings and Julie Lewis' Kathleen O'Connor: Artist in Exile
Vera Whittington A review of Peter Cowan's Maitland Brown

Fiction

Ross Buncle The Garden of Weeds
Yu-Li Hu Room for One
Rodney Goodbun The Wanderer
Stephen Faulds Johnny Snowball
Geraldine Wooller God is Merciful
Chris McLeod Rising
Glyn Parry Across the Tracks
Marion Campbell Not Being Miriam
Joan Fox Story
Julie Lewis Spite

Creative Nonfiction

Elizabeth Jolley Easter Moon Easter Lily

Poetry

Alec Choate Two Views of the Milky Way
Alec Choate Roadside Grave
Alec Choate Vietnamese Refugee Woman
Diane Beckingham To The Goldfields
Diane Beckingham A Vase of Fresh Fish
Faye Davis Things Visible and Things Invisible
Faye Davis Mill-Site
Faye Davis Colour of Hide
Faye Davis Bootmaker
Faye Davis Pelican, Matilda Bay
Faye Davis Sandpipers
Faye Davis Othello to Desdemona
Asa Le Tourneau Filming
Shane McCauley St Judas
Rosemary Buss Twenty One
Kay Borman Birdcage
Andrew Lansdown Quatrains, Swan Valley
Andrew Lansdown Five Tanka
Philip Salom Front-end Loader
Philip Salom After Dinner Music
Philip Salom Clouds
Dennis Schofield untitled
Dennis Schofield On some sunny breakfasts in the kitchen,
Paul Hetherington The Letter
Paul Hetherington Finding Loneliness
Dorothy Hewett remembering…
Joyce Parkes Miner miens
Roland Leach A 7 o'clock sun
Roland Leach The Brothers Bagadjimbiri
Hal Colebatch Tewkesbury Abbey
Hal Colebatch Going Back