Cover: Matthew McAlpine, 'Of beauty scorched and bare', 2022. Acrylic, sand, fluorescent pigment, binder and cast acrylic on canvas. Photograph by Salty Davenport. © Matthew McAlpine, 2022.
Westerly Issue 68.1
Volume 68 Number 1, July 2023
Charmaine Papertalk Green
Ouyang Yu
Jumaana Abdu
Stephen Muecke
Andrew Sutherland
‘Labelled, I Became a Puppet Theatre of Protest’
by John Kinsella
No single meaning ever belongs to
a single word. A single word could be
endless words, endless sounds,
endless meanings. A name could shift
meaning and characteristics. A word
could dissolve into ‘pure sound’.
With writing, artwork and ideas from Charmaine Papertalk Green, Ouyang Yu, John Kinsella, Jumaana Abdu, Stephen Muecke, Andrew Sutherland, Brenda Saunders, DeWitt Henry, Michael Farrell, Wes Lee, Alan Fyfe, Gemma Nethercote Way, Luisa Mitchell, Bryant Apolonio, Kate North, Ellen Shelley, Sampurna Chattarji, Jo Langdon, Luoyang Chen, Julie Watts, Tiffany Ko, Christopher Konrad, Cass Lynch, Rachel Robertson, Helena Kadmos, Jo Pollitt, Coral Carter, Suzanne Hermanoczki, Petra White, Kathryn Hummel, Madeleine Dale and many others…
Contents:
Poetry
Wes Lee wearing the night
Stephen Muecke ‘flash up, flare up, sparkle, coruscate, glint, gleam, glimmer, streak, twinkle, and so on’
Hannah Reynolds Idiot Maths vs the Natural Bridge
Brenda Saunders The Disappearing
Josie/Jocelyn Suzanne A telephone pole shaped like a crucifix, sundown
Isabella G. Mead Megafauna
Gemma Nethercote Way Rituals
Jennifer Allen Some People’s Ghosts
Jonno Revanche Recovery
Patricia Reid did a bloody bear take a bath in that
Kate North Fluid Dynamics
Jan Napier the thylacine on my tea towel
Michael Farrell How Do They Live
Jarad Bruinstroop First Road Trip
Coral Carter breakfast with my brother
Christopher Konrad Found
DeWitt Henry On Scars
Svetlana Sterlin Apocalyptic sunsets at the дача
Brendan Ryan Taking it Slow
Graham Kershaw Valley
Luoyang Chen Stone Flower
Ion Corcos Strange to be Ignorant about Life
Miles Hitchcock On the Day of Her Death, the Spirit of Queen Elizabeth II Passes through the Town of Kalgoorlie, Wangkatha Country, Western Australia
Julie Watts Short—
Toby Davidson Floating Over Atlantis
David Bunn A thousand pieces
Ellen Shelley An Island
Rhian Healy The park after dark Or, the djiti djiti speaks
Alicia Sometimes Portrait at Howqua River
Petra White Elegy (12)
Luisa Mitchell How to check you’re still alive
Madeleine Dale Taking Men Off the Ice An alternate history of the Franklin Expedition
Sampurna Chattarji Day 6
Creative Nonfiction
John Kinsella Labelled, I Became a Puppet Theatre of Protest
Kathryn Imray History Is Dead People
Kathryn Hummel Shark Week
Ouyang Yu My Sixteen Grandfathers
Writers Respond to the John Stringer Prize 2022
Cass Lynch Wheat and Moon
Rachel Robertson A Gesture Towards Steam
Helena Kadmos Leaning In
Jo Pollitt all ways fire she gives
Fiction
Alan Fyfe Autobiography of a Corridor
Paul Fiocco Honeyeater
Jo Langdon Parting Points
Tiffany Ko 嫲嫲 Maa Maa
Bryant Apolonio All Persons Living or Dead
Kelvin Kellman A Brief History of My Name
Jumaana Abdu Children Go Straight to Heaven When They Die
Poetic Constellations
Elfie Shiosaki, Guest Editor Note on Westerly's 'Poetic Constellations'
Charmaine Papertalk Green Ilgari Aba / Grandmother Sky
The Randolph Stow Memorial 2023
Andrew Sutherland Autobiography of a Sickness
Essay
Laura Warren To Be Both/And
The AAWP/Westerly Life Writing Prize 2022
Suzanne Hermanoczki Doors
Lily Chan avatar
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