Westerly 41:1

Contents:

Essay

John Kinsella Drafts, Place, and All Possible Meanings*
Susan Midalia The Contemporary Female Bildungsroman: Gender, Genre and the Politics of Optimism

Creative Non-fiction

Goenawan Mohamad Imagining Australia
Beth Yap Place Perfect and the Other Asia

Review

Judith Johnson A review of Great Southern Landings
Tanya Dalziell A review of Carmel Bird's The White Garden
Antonio Simoes Da Silvo A review of Nicholas Jose's Chinese Whispers
Heather Neilson A review of Andrew Reimer's America With
Angeline O’Neill A review of Debra Adelaide's The Hotel Albatross
Hena Maes-Jelinek A review of Veronica Brady's Caught In The Draught
Nicholas Birns A review of David Brooks' The House of Balthus

Poetry

Tracy Ryan Washday
Zan Ross Twelve Months Without Moonlight
Carolyn Logan Remember the Buffalo
Stephen Magee Then and again
Paul Kavanagh January
Dorothy Hewett On the Nullabor
Louis Armand Kascha
Miriam Lo Kitchen Dreams
Barbara Brandt Dust
Peter Porter A Pam Brown Belt
Peter Porter Breakfasting with Cockatoos
Philip Salom The Song of Hair
Philip Salom Confession of Scale
Paul Hetherington Grandmother
Geoff Page A Walk in Guangzhou 1994
Thomas Shapcott Stag in the Upstairs Parlour
Kevin Brophy Painting Session
Craig Powell The Lost City of Gold

Fiction

Arabella Edge On Thin Ice Skating
Chris Pigott Fire
Kate James The Go-Between
Rose Moxham Cooking With Grace
Leong Tzu Ann The Day's Catch
Pam Harvey Searching Kyoto
Nichola Ryan The Ten Per Cent
Jo Gardiner Imago
Steve Holden Click
Keryn Large My Thin Men
Susanna Easther Old Joe