Westerly 56:1

Contents:

Essay

Bruce Bennett The Civilising Value of the Humanities
Page Richards The Lyric Impulse in Dennis Haskell's All the Time in the World
Chris Wortham An Uncertain Smile: humour in the poetry of Dennis Haskell
Isabela Banzon Writing the Ordinary: Poets in Conversation
Clare Rhoden Innovation meets tradition in Brenda Walker's 'The Wing of Night'
Michael Auckland 'Matisse is jammed with confidence': Painting and creative inspiration in the early writings of Murray

Creative Non-fiction

Megam McKinlay Paradigms of Identity/Jumbles of Words
Blaze Kwaymullina Country Roads, Take me Home

Review

Paul Hetherington Sometimes Difficult, Always Diverse: Aspects of contemporary Australian Poetry 2010-11
David Whish-Wilson The Year's Work in Fiction

Poetry

Bruce Dawe To a Notable Literary Archaeologist
Shirley Geok-lin Lim The Mouse
Shirley Geok-lin Lim Picasso
Geoff Page The Journal
Miriam Wei Wei Lo Ars Poetica
Kit Kelen Poetry
Adrian Caesar After a Child's Death
Rob Wallis Love Letter
Diane Fahey Red-Capped Plover
Jonathon Hadwen The Night Keeper
Matthew Hall Cairn(s): Arcadian Nocturne
Annamaria Weldon The memory of earth
Janet Jackson Necessary
Caitlin Maling Sundays
Anthony Lynch Introduced
Susan Hawthorne Sanskrit
Aidan Coleman From Stroke Poems
Graham Kershaw A Different Sea
Helen Gildfind Strange Teacher
Ross Donlon Boys Dying
Roland Leach Middle East Sonnets
Christopher Konrad Letters
Jo Mills Persephone
Yann Toussaint Watching a Young Kestrel Learning to Fly
Bob Morrow Coup de Grace
David Buchanan Sacha
Peter Bibby Money Street
Mark O’Flynn Bower Birds
Helen Hagemann Perth Poinsettia
Renee Pettitt-Schipp Last Time I Saw You Your Hair Was Longer
Maria Takolander 47 Degrees
Graeme Hetherington West Hobart Winter, 1955
Rachael Mead Decansos (sestina)

Fiction

Pat Jacobs Open Heart
M.G. Michael The Yellowing Pages of the Almanac
Brooke Dunnell Heart Attack
Kate Whitfield The Thirsty World
Tim McCabe An Allegory of the Crow Man, Curlew and Frog