Westerly 41:2

Contents:

Essay

Roslynn Haynes Ambivalent Eulogy: Catherine Martin's 'The Explorers'
Anna Johnston Australian Autobiography and the Politics of Narrating Post-Colonial Space
Ron Shapiro The Darville/Demidenko Affair: Jew and anti-Jew in Australian Fiction

Review

Geoffrey Bolton A review of George Seddon's Swan Song
Pamela Bagworth A review of Elizabeth Jolley's The Orchard Thieves
Andrew Burke A review of Chao's Paper Board
Heather Neilson A review of Gillian Meat's The Grass Sister
Roberta Buffi A review of Justine Ettler's The River Ophelia
Rosanne Dingli A review of Sue Woolfe's Leaning Towards Infinity

Poetry

Kirsty Sangster Marriage Country
Kirsty Sangster At the Durer Exhibition
Diane Fahey Hero and Leander Dying
Kenneth C Steven Will you come swimming?
Katherine Cottle S.J. Yates & Son
Wendy Poussard Leaving the Island
Desmond Graham 1890
Stephen Faulds Flock
Alan Alexander Flinders Petrie Goes Walking
Alan Alexander Evening Reverie
Bruce Dawe In a Time of Drought
Ken Spillman Four Elements
Marc Swan Father's Day, 1995
Roland Leach On the Skelligs
Roland Leach My father hide & mother meanwhile
Jena Woodhouse Petersburg
Mike Greenacre Man With The Metrical Foot
Stephen Gilfedder Collective
Michael Sariban Rider
Barry Butson I am Where
Barry Butson Family Cemetery
Barry Butson Ferret Man
Jay Liveson Soulmates
Richard Hillman wayang kulit (shadow-puppet theatre)
John Malone Spent
Barbara Fisher The Dressmaker
Stephen Mallick Grafting

Fiction

Beate Josephi A Stolen Childhood
Sarah French Three-Tears: An Old Family Recipe
Carmel MacDonald-Grahame Minor Runnings Off
Marguerite Laurence the seventh day
Maria Gillman Roses
Lesley Beasley A Place In The Family
Brigid Lowry Woman Found in Lonely Room
Brigid Lowry A Little Romance
Christina Lupton Hector Burger
Hoa Pham Slipstream
Adrian Wood Gopal's Yoyo