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Westerly Issue 63.2
Volume 63 Number 2, November 2018
David Malouf
Julie Dowling
Rose Lucas
John Kinsella & Fay Zwicky
and more…
‘A Unique and Necessary Form’
by David Malouf
Story-telling, the pleasure of sitting in close company and listening to a story, allowing oneself to float free in the moment and enter, both in the senses and in imagination, into the story’s events so that the story becomes our own, must be one of the oldest and earliest of our pleasures—a function of that uniquely human faculty in us, the capacity to step beyond the actual into the possible.
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With writing and ideas from David Malouf, Julie Dowling, Rose Lucas, Ambelin Kwaymullina, Paul Hetherington, Michael Farrell, Anne Alvey, and John Kinsella and Fay Zwicky, and many more.
Featuring an impressive list of over 40 writers, issue 63.2 of Westerly features a special on women’s poetry, with special features from The Northam Noongar Poetry Project and a selection of the finest prose poetry from women writers around the world.
Contents:
Essay
David Malouf A Unique and Necessary Form
Wang Guanglin Writer as Translator: on translation and postmodern appropriation in Nicholas Jose's The Red Thread: A Love Story
Ambelin Kwaymullina Literature, Resistance, and First Nations Futures: storytelling from an Australian Indigenous women's standpoint in the twenty-first century and beyond
Beibei Chen Bilingualism and Cultural Translation: on the dilemma of migration in Ouyang Yu's 'The English Class'
Fiction
Wayne Price If You Can't See Me, I Can't See You
Troy Dagg The Pool
Kira McPherson The Mañana Approach
Emily Paull From Under the Ground
Jane Downing Caution Submerged Steps
Creative Non-Fiction
Rose van Son All of the Relatives
Cindy Solonec Removed: an excerpt from 'Shared lives on Nigena country'
Mohammed Massoud Morsi Tevy
Pete Mawhinney The Otway's Panther: a creative non-fiction
The Northam Noongar Poetry Project
Deborah Moody Bilya Kep
Yvone Kickett A Bush Walk
Janet Kickett Story of My Life
Cyndy Moody Humble Man
Julie Wynne Rise Up and Be Strong
Poetry
Anne Elvey (without you)
Rose Lucas Namatjira's Ghost Gums
Paul Hetherington Fractures
Michael Farrell Rackoffteurs
Steve Evans Take It
Ella Jeffery Hotel del Coronado
Sue Peachy Robin, Morghyn, Mother
Brendan Ryan Ampilawatja
Roland Leach Wreckage
Julie Watts Like Icarus
Chloe Hosking abrolhos excavation
Rita Togini Visitations
Nadia Rhook Settler Meets Sky
Dan Stavely A Steely Nerve
Geoff Page A Wave
Tim Edwards New Waves
Carolyn Abbs A Victory Grin
Amy Lin The Architecture of Grief
Kathryn Hummel Gracenotes & Endnotes
International Prose Poetry
Carrie Etter The Message
Vahni Capildeo Divination: Linen and Dolphins
Mariko Nagai Occupied State
Jane Monson The Patchwork Boy
Holly Iglesias Suitable for Framing
Interview
Julie Dowling and Elfie Shiosaki Sovereignty, Self-Determination and Speaking Our Freedoms: an interview with Julie Dowling
John Kinsella and Fay Zwicky Interview with Fay Zwicky (1995)
Review
Fiona Dorrell Age of Dust: a review of Walking with Camels: The Story of Bertha Strehlow
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