Westerly Issue 63.1

With writing, translations and ideas from: Chris Mansell, Mohammed Massoud Morsi, Marcelle Freiman, Paul Collis, Julia Prendergast, Stuart Barnes, Rachael Mead, Matt Robinson, Kate Middleton, Toby Davidson, Natalie Harkin, the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery Art Writing Prize, and many more.

Featuring over 50 international and Australian writers, Westerly 63.1 includes special features from The Sun Yat-sen International Residency, a publication exchange with The Indian Quarterly, and the 2017 Westerly’s Writers’ Development Program.

Contents:

Special Feature: Sun Yat-sen Residency

Fan Dai Terrace Talk
Mandy Coe Duoyishu, Bada, Tiger’s Mouth
Luis H. Francia Do Not Ask a Mountain for Its Passport
Priya Sarukkai Chabria Mutations 1
Jonathan Morley Excerpt from ‘The New China’
Kristina Hočevar Excerpt from ‘exercising the edge’

Special Feature: The Indian Quarterly

Ranjani Murali Mother TV: Posthumous Greeting for My Beloved Disbelievers, Played on Loop
Nitoo Das from a Meghalaya Travelogue
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa Before Sunrise

Poetry

Philip Neilsen Westerly Wind
Antonia Pont Inoculation
Ross Jackson Elizabeth Quay approaching
Paul Collis Lean Streets
Paul Collis Anakiss
Natalie Harkin Blood-Sonnet Chronicles
Stuart Barnes from Binary Tree Poems
Marcelle Freiman Still
Josephine Clarke son
Jane Monson The Secret Life of Mud
Shey Marque After the Late Night Joys
Chris Mansell Night Fox
Toby Davidson East
Donna Mazza Blue Tongue
Stu Hatton a final room
Rachael Petridis Night Beach
Kristin Henry The Neuroscience of Old Love
Matt Robinson Against the Wedding Invitation Ampersand
Linda Bradbury somebody called this place ‘Snake Hill’
Mags Webster Hot milk
Kate Middleton Ritual Exchange
Anna Ryan-Punch No Money
Graeme Miles Ash and salt
Laurie Smith Bokhara Tea

Fiction

David Mohan Durer’s Hare
Alison Martin Star Atlas
Julia Prendergast Mercy
Rachael Mead The Weight of Things
Beejay Silcox Bushfire Moon

Creative Non-Fiction

Mohammed Massoud Morsi Toqburneh
David Carlin Love Lane (the work of writing)
Samantha Trayhurn Green Shadows: Venturing into Gerald Murnane’s Plains
Dougie Nelson Sovereign Peoples, Sovereign Stories: Welcomes and Acknowledgements of Country in Aboriginal Worldviews
Claire G. Coleman The Risks of Question Time: Not So Black and White
Marie O’Rourke Suturing
Matthew Hooton Thirteen Monkeys and an Ageing Emu Run Amok through the Ruins of Oracle City
Suvi Mahonen Coming Home
Amanda Gardiner Through pools of light to get to the dark—reflections on Batavia: Giving Voice to the Voiceless

Essays

Kathryn Hummel Outing the Unwritten: reflections on academia and the field in Bangladesh
Leonard M. Collard Katitjin Ngulluckiny Boodjera: Kura, Yeye Mila Boorda
Dan Disney Elemental Affect, Computational Forms: Jordie Albiston’s Euclid’s dog

Review

Brenda Saunders Review of False Claims of Colonial Thieves

Writers Development Program

Maddie Godfrey Hoping Mechanisms
Alana Hunt Potholes
Vidya Rajan Pre-emptive mourning
Vidya Rajan Panic Attack
Wesley Robertson Granmarie