Westerly Issue 62.2

With writing, translations and ideas from: The Melbourne-Seoul Poetry Exchange, the China-Australia Writing Centre, John Mateer, Rina Kikuchi, Dai Fan, Shane McCauley, Roanna Gonsalves, Elizabeth Tan, Dennis Haskell, Isabelle Li, Fiona Morrison, Agustinus Wibowo, Timmah Ball, Yujing Liang, Shane Strange, Ella Jeffery and many more.

Issue 62.2 continues Westerly‘s focus on writing and culture from the Indian Ocean and East Asian regions. Westerly 62.2 is a curated collection of work by more than 60 writers. It includes three special features of collaborative and cultural exchange writing between an exciting selection of Australian, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese writers.

[one_half]Dan Disney, Jessica L. Wilkinson and Cassandra Atherton[/one_half][one_half_last]Introduction: ‘bending in all directions everywhere’: a juddering, glimpsing, eidólonging of poets.[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Lisa Gorton[/one_half][one_half_last]Yeonhui[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Bonny Cassidy[/one_half][one_half_last]Ghostin[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Bonny Cassidy[/one_half][one_half_last]Shields[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Bo-Seon Shim[/one_half][one_half_last]Mangwon[/one_half_last]
[one_half]So-Yeon Kim[/one_half][one_half_last]Mangwon-dong[/one_half_last]
[one_half]So-Yeon Kim[/one_half][one_half_last]‘Coffin Bay’[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Dan Disney[/one_half][one_half_last]that winter, these protests[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Dan Disney[/one_half][one_half_last]spring, Hannam-dong[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Kent MacCarter[/one_half][one_half_last]Mujeongwiundong Mangwon-dong (North Korean blanket remix)[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Yideum Kim[/one_half][one_half_last]Ugg Boots[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Yideum Kim[/one_half][one_half_last]‘Face Made of Steel’[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Jessica L. Wilkinson[/one_half][one_half_last]Reflected[/one_half_last]

Special Feature: Contemporary Japanese Poets in Translation

[one_half]Misumi Mizuki[/one_half][one_half_last]The Gift[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Ishikawa Itsuko[/one_half][one_half_last]Soles—[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Kawaguchi Hiromi[/one_half][one_half_last]Welcome Home[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Kono Satoko[/one_half][one_half_last]Head Ache[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Misaki Takako[/one_half][one_half_last]Into White Darkness[/one_half_last]

Special Feature: The China–Australia Writing Centre

[one_half]Lucy Dougan[/one_half][one_half_last]Introduction[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Huang Yuanshen[/one_half][one_half_last]A Passion for Australian Studies[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Zhou Xiaojin[/one_half][one_half_last]A Critical Survey of Chinese Journal Articles on Australian Literature in China 1979-2016[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Translated by Iris FAN Xing[/one_half][one_half_last]A Selection of Fou Chinese Women[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Josephine Wilson[/one_half][one_half_last]Umbilicus[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Fan Dai[/one_half][one_half_last]Saturday Evening[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Elizabeth Tan[/one_half][one_half_last]A life, passing[/one_half_last]

Poetry

[one_half]Christina Lloyd[/one_half][one_half_last]Dimples Whiskey[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Mark Floyer[/one_half][one_half_last]Post Tropical[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Sampurna Chattarji[/one_half][one_half_last]The Dictation Test: I[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Sampurna Chattarji[/one_half][one_half_last]2 sunken islands.
3 kinds of rock.[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Reneé Pettitt-Schipp[/one_half][one_half_last]Pinggir[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Reneé Pettitt-Schipp[/one_half][one_half_last]Weaving Ketupat on Pulu Cheplok[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Ross Jackson[/one_half][one_half_last]Oceania as I imagined it[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Sanna Peden[/one_half][one_half_last]keunggulan[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Timmah Ball[/one_half][one_half_last]Peeling[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Ouyang Yu[/one_half][one_half_last] [/one_half_last]
[one_half]Christopher Kelen[/one_half][one_half_last]how the hundred schools contend[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Shane McCauley[/one_half][one_half_last]Gion Shimu in Snow (Hiroshige)[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Mike Heald[/one_half][one_half_last]On the Theft of My New TV, or Watching with Ryokan[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Elaine Barker[/one_half][one_half_last]The Finger[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Shane Strange[/one_half][one_half_last]River[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Dennis Haskell[/one_half][one_half_last]Days without end[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Mona Zahra Attamimi[/one_half][one_half_last]Scent[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Liang Yujing[/one_half][one_half_last]Call Me Eugene[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Rose van Son[/one_half][one_half_last]Remembering Singapore[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Shey Marque[/one_half][one_half_last]Alligatorwood[/one_half_last]

Fiction

[one_half]Agustinus Wibowo[/one_half][one_half_last]The Sea[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Mohammed Massoud Morsi[/one_half][one_half_last]The Home of Lost Angels[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Mark Fabiano[/one_half][one_half_last]Homecoming in the Garden of the Full Moon[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Katinka Smit[/one_half][one_half_last]The Blue[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Roanna Gonsalves[/one_half][one_half_last]George Jarvis, black hindoo servant, Port Jackson, 1809 (Preparatory Study)[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Parvati Angana[/one_half][one_half_last]God Willing[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Bethany Rawson[/one_half][one_half_last]Goji no Chaimu (The five o’clock bell)[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Jennifer Banyard[/one_half][one_half_last]Footprints[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Ann Dombroski[/one_half][one_half_last]Siem Reap[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Belinda Hermawan[/one_half][one_half_last]Xié xie[/one_half_last]

Creative Non-Fiction

[one_half]Ella Jeffery[/one_half][one_half_last]A mirror in the dark[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Caitlin Prince[/one_half][one_half_last]Sitting on my grandmother’s skirts[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Isabelle Li[/one_half][one_half_last]The Aristotelian Questions[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Rachel Watts[/one_half][one_half_last]Insha’Allah[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Gay Lynch[/one_half][one_half_last]If You Hear a Baby Crying[/one_half_last]

Essays

[one_half]John Mateer[/one_half][one_half_last]Invisible Genres, or on the Virtual and the Actual[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Siti Sarah Ridhuan[/one_half][one_half_last]Bahasa Indonesia/Melayu & Yolngu-Matha—recognising familiar words in unfamiliar contexts[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Fiona Morrison[/one_half][one_half_last]‘A transfiguration of my local patriotism’[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Dennis Haskell[/one_half][one_half_last]Fay Zwicky and ‘the riddle of the self’s existence’[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Yingjie M. Cheng[/one_half][one_half_last]Modernism En Route[/one_half_last]

Reviews

[one_half]Jen Bowden[/one_half][one_half_last]A review of The Permanent Resident by Roanna Gonsalves[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Rebecca Harris[/one_half][one_half_last]A Review of Billy Sing by Ouyang Yu[/one_half_last]

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