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The debut novel of literary scholar Deborah Pike, The Players, is a warm, clear-eyed, funny and tender exploration of the …
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Catherine Noske, past Editor of Westerly On Thursday September 4, news broke that Meanjin, Australia’s second-oldest literary journal, was to …
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‘If You Cried, They Gave You Something to Cry About’: Graeme Dixon’s liberation songs When Noongar poet Graeme Dixon’s Holocaust …
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Koraly Dimitriadis, perhaps more than most poets, comes with a host of assumptions or ‘labels’—feminist, Cypriot-Australian writer, ‘a hysterical woman’: …
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Voices We Need to Listen To I first encountered Grace Yee’s poetry in 2021 when Alvin Pang and …
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Gwen Harwood AO (1920–1995) was a poet and librettist. She published over 420 works, including 386 poems and thirteen librettos. …
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The re-examination of our collective history: Monument and truth-telling
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A note from the editor The page constraints of print publishing are one of the constant hindrances of editing a …
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Pidj Flavell has yet to learn what ‘too many irons in the fire’ means. She’ll write anything: poetry (Cordite, Westerly), …
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Theresa Wilks is currently an Honours student studying at Edith Cowan University. Her major is Creative Writing and her thesis …
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A note from the editor The page constraints of print publishing are one of the constant hindrances of editing a …
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Featuring exciting new work from writers and artists across WA, Australia and the world, Westerly 69.2 showcases a range of …
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Clément Marot (23 November 1496–12 September 1544) was a French Renaissance poet. Randolph Stow (28 November 1935–29 May 2010) was born …
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Although this book’s speaker wishes ‘to rewrite the working class into history’ (‘Class Consciousness’, 1331) and its seventy-five poems are …
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Katia Ariel’s The Swift Dark Tide is a marvel. Shortlisted for the 2024 Stella Prize, it is a miracle of …
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Web Editor’s Note For any readers who aren’t aware: one of the editors of Hello Keanu!, Sarah Yeung, is Westerly …
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Fire and Brimstone When you first flick through the pages of Jerome Masamaka’s poetry collection Under the Tattered Roof, published …
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Kate Larsen’s Public. Open. Space. is a conversation as much as it is a poetry collection. Through a series of …
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It’s easy to see why Kirsty Iltners’ debut novel, Depth of Field, received the Dorothy Hewett Award. The Brisbane-based writer …
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No change but for this deepening, growing, till one day I should be journeyman and then at last master, like …
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Tamryn Bennett’s ICAROS is teeming with metaphors as well as literal descriptions of the Earth and its parts. You get …
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Paul Hetherington has published eighteen full-length collections of poetry, including Sleeplessness, which won the inaugural Marion Halligan Award in 2024. …
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Between the ages of six to fifteen Stephen Chinna lived in Margaret River. These two poems form part of a …
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Fencing Lessons with Hermaphroditic Flatworms I.En gardeNon-parasitic marine flatworms (Class: Turbellaria, Phylum: Platyhelminthes) are some of the most structurally …
