Westerly Issue 61.2

Poetry

Eric Shaffer Walking Zone
Ella Jeffery Bond Cleaning
Lea McInernay Making
Stuart A. Paterson The Athiest’s Prayer
Ignatius Kim Christchurch stopover
D.A. Hosek Chicago Sonnet #5
Alice Allan Cartography
Liam Ferney Woman in transit
Josephine Clarke Child in a Suitcase
Anna Kerdijk Nicholson From ‘Notes toward a lesser consolation’
Lucy Czerwiec Abrolhos (after Batavia)
Caitlin Mailing Closer
Brett Dionysius Southern Bookook Owls
Rose van Son Flora Abundance
Les Wicks Kyeemagh’s Sunny April
Anne M. Carson The filament of the body
Robbie Coburn For my father, at last
Dick Alderson link
Ron Pretty New Wine
Tim Edwards The Literary Ant
Paul Hetherington Itchings and Belongings: After Paul Strand
Paul Munden Kick/Recall
Alyson Miller Lunar
Anne Elvey Skin world

Fiction

Caitlin Prince Native Animal
Zoe Deleuil Travelling to the Motherland
Donna Mazza Love in Two Parts
Karen Atkinson Everybody Knows
Raelee Chapman The Gardener
Joanna Morrison Night Road to Ceduna

Creative Non-Fiction

Marie O’Rourke Lessons in the Domestic Arts: A Sampler
Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes and Rebecca Higgie Born Free, Created Poor: Coming of Age in Ethiopia
Heather Taylor Johnson Skydiving for Twenty-Two Year-olds (and Thirteen Year-olds, and Forty-Two Year-olds)

Essays

Cate Kennedy The Empathy App
Timmah Ball In Australia
Ouyang Yu ‘A Bilingual Force Moving in Between’: memories of a bilingual animal
Vanessa Wiggin Thai Miniatures
Siti Sarah Ridhuan Kain Songket
Jo Jones Feeling through Form: Kim Scott’s ‘Benang’ and the Romantic Poetic
Nicole Moore Performing 1971: Dorothy Hewett’s ‘The Chapel Perilous’
Amy Hilhorst Prose Poetry and Painting with Words: in Conversation with Paul Hetherington

Reviews

Lika Posamari Hope ascends with a foot in each world
Marie Munkara There is Life Here: A review of ‘Two Sisters’