Cover: Jacob Kotzee, Still Life and Window 2021. Oil on canvas. Photograph provided by the artist. © Jacob Kotzee, 2021.
Westerly Issue 67.2
Volume 67 Number 2, November 2022
Shastra Deo
Marion Kickett
John Kinsella
Caitlin Maling
Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes
‘Us Skeletons on a Blind Date, Waiting’ by Matthew Hooton
Just as English has only twenty-six characters, and fewer shapes, thanks and, and so every page contains the code of every other page—can, in fact, be rearranged to become every other page— so every skeleton contains the bone code, the IKEA assembly instructions, of every other skeleton. Bones the building blocks of this language, this original written word, before wasted literacy, once read by oracles and shamans and gravediggers. An archaic Morse.
With writing, artwork and ideas from Shastra Deo, Marion Kickett, John Kinsella, Westerly‘s Mid-Career Fellow Caitlin Maling, Jill Jones, Michael Farrell, Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes, Rozanna Lilley, Matthew Hooten, Donna Ward, Kirwan Henry, Richard Rebel, Anne Elvey, Aditi Arun, Martin Kovan, Izzy Roberts-Orr, Kira McPherson, David Edwards, Zoe Deleuil, James Walton, Nadia Rhook, Rosie Moana Pickett, Campbell Andersen, Ann-Marie Blanchard, Fiona Wilkes, Sam Moe, Roland Leach, Emma Crook and many others…
Contents:
Poetry
Shastra Deo Fishing at Caer a’Muirehen: for my brother
Jill Jones Somewhere Ago
Alan Fyfe A Song for Saint Roch
Kirwan Henry August
Izzy Roberts-Orr He can hear all the animals
David Edwards Autumn 1994: a Haibun
Anne Elvey Jet
Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes የከዋክብት መንገድ / The Journey of Black Stars
Riley Faulds Scrubbing The Pool
Gary Allen The source
Aditi Arun Taxon
Alisha Brown Exhumation
Rozanna Lilley El Dorado (after) life
Carl Walsh hey, hey, the clouds are whey…
M. T. O’Byrne The Antichthones
Ann-Marie Blanchard Stone Cento
Nadia Rhook Mayland’s Aerodrome (1926)
Ross Jackson Under the skin of the Perth free transit zone
Rosie Moana Pickett three generations
Esther Creek summer of glory
Gemma Parker What Distance Does
George Cox Not Dithyrambs
Beth Spencer The Murder of Little Joy
Sam Moe I don’t sleep the whole summer
Zoe Barron Unhinged
Ron Barton Poor John (rah rah rah)
Lisa Collyer The Rag Trade
Joshua Badge fitzroy pool 2022 (dir. luca guadagnino)
Martin Kovan Poem
Sam Morley Salvage yard with children
Roland Leach late night swimming
Fiction
Richard Rebel Golden Fleece
Fiona Wilkes Quiet Love
Campbell Andersen From Tateyama Cable Car/4–6
Matthew Hooton Us Skeletons on a Blind Date, Waiting
Joe Baumann A Tough Man to Love
Kira McPherson Trolley Boy
James Walton Waiting for Cache
Jennifer Allen The Beginning
Creative Nonfiction
Zoe Deleuil The tiger, the Grunewald, Judith Kerr
spoken by Marion Kickett and heard by John Kinsella, who responds Walking Together on Country
Lauren Poole Protecting Van Gogh from the Insane
Donna Ward Fire Reveals Him: for Angela, Monica & Karen
Kyle Guest What the bomb said to the photon
Mid-Career Fellowship
Caitlin Maling The Poem in the Parrot, the Boy in the Bird
Scholarly
Peter D. Mathews The Monstrosities of Modernity: Baudelaire’s legacy in Alex Landragin’s Crossings
Aidan Coleman Cronulla Muse: John Forbes’ earliest encounters with reading and writing poetry
Photo Essay
Samuel Cox On the Track to Tourmaline
Emma Crook End of the Line
Visual Art
Michael Farrell Trust in Goodness: four mixed media collages
Partners
