Westerly Issue 56.1

Stories

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

Review Essays

Paul Hetherington Sometimes Difficult, Always Diverse: Aspects Of Contemporary Australian Poetry2010 –11
David Whish-Wilson The Year’s Work In Fiction

Articles

Blaze Kwaymullina Country Roads, Take Me Home; Prisons, Movement And Memory
Clare Rhoden Innovation Meets Tradition In Brenda Walker’s The Wing Of Night
Michael Ackland ‘Matisse Is Jammed With Confidence’: Painting And Creative Inspiration In The Early Writings Of Murray Bail
Dennis Haskell Tribute
Bruce Dawe To A Notable Literary Archaeologist
Bruce Bennett The Civilising Value Of The Humanities
Shirley Geok-Lin Lim The Mouse; Picasso
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
Geoff Page The Journal
Isabela Banzon Writing The Ordinary: Poets In Conversation
Megan Mckinlay Paradigms Of Identity/Jumbles Of Words: Travels With Dennis Haskell
Miriam Wei Wei Lo Ars Poetica

Poems

Kit Kelen Ross Donlon
Adrian Caesar Roland Leach
Rob Wallis Christopher Konrad
Diane Fahey Jo Mills
Jonathan Hadwen Yann Toussaint
Matthew Hall Bob Morrow
Annamaria Weldon David Buchanan
Janet Jackson Peter Bibby
Caitlin Maling Mark O’flynn
Anthony Lynch Helen Hagemann
Susan Hawthorne Renee Pettitt-Schipp
Aidan Coleman Maria Takolander
Graham Kershaw Graeme Hetherington
Helen Gildfind Rachael Mead