Westerly Issue 67.1

Poetry

Kimberly L. Becker Heimweh
Shey Marque Patterns, Inconsistencies & Microaggressions
Gayelene Carbis Red Horse by the River
Jurate Sasnaitis Post-mortem | Poland
Rosie Moana Pickett coloured diamond glowing lights
Philip Neilsen Petrol Station
Meesha Williams The Man Who Became a Street Name
Jackson My father’s toolbox
Rikki Santer House of Bears
Stuart Barnes How To Be a Good Gay in a Small Town
Nathan Curnow The Wolf, the Goat and the Cabbage
Rhian Healy Ode to Weeds
Rita Tognini The Season of Silence
Nakita Humes Healing
Ellie Fisher Bodily Offerings
Peter Burges A Rebirth
Kristin Sanders Image 12. The tutorial
Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon More Flies Than Stars
Andrew Menken The (Mostly) Suburban Senryu Cycle
Pidj Flavell The Shapes and Shakes of my Hands
Kristian Radford Diurnal
Brenda Saunders Yaama Ngunna Baaka: Dancing the River
Emma Jayne Willson Trespassers
Shelly Beamish Love begins
Joan Mazza Adronitis*
Jarad Bruinstroop Late Summer
Zoe Barron Lloyd hates women
Gale Acuff Anyone who doesn’t like me is a
M. T. O’Byrne Red Rattler Days
Ryan Mattern Tree House

Fiction

Donna Mazza Chick
Martin Kovan Prometheus
John Saul Working with hippos (or how to get on with animals in times of pandemic)
Daniel Ray Takeaway
Emily Tsokos Purtill Précis
Rosanne Dingli Phrase
Miso Bell Bye Bye Birdie
Jo Langdon Bird Streets

Creative Non-Fiction

Jessie Berry-Porter I write down my father and chase myself
Dani Netherclift When alive, my brother bore no resemblance to mermaids
Aileen Walsh Writing for Role-Playing
Olivia De Zilva when the world shouts your name don’t forget to answer it
Kerry Greer A Silhouette in Grey: life in the aftermath of suicide
Rose van Son A Room for Solace

Mid-Career Fellowship

Scott-Patrick Mitchell November 15th, 2017 (a fragment)
Scott-Patrick Mitchell drag this poem
Scott-Patrick Mitchell Rubber Room

Writers’ Development Program

Emma Crook End of the Line
Priya Kahlon Everlasting
Clare Testoni Graveyard Account

Review Essay

Peter D. Mathews The Peace Offering: concluding Steven Carroll’s Eliot Quartet
Philip Mead Toby Davidson, Good for the Soul: John Curtin’s life with poetry

Essay

Sophie Finlay Ecofeminism, New Materialism and Lyric Subjectivity in Bonny Cassidy’s Final Theory and Megan Kaminski’s Gentlewomen

Randolph Stow Memorial Lecture 2022

Josephine Wilson Not given, but taken
Prema Arasu A Short History of the Ocean

Art Essay

Jaes Bidwell and Melissa Kruger perceive
Jaes Bidwell and Melissa Kruger be wary
Jaes Bidwell and Melissa Kruger witness
Jaes Bidwell and Melissa Kruger worship