A special issue showcasing the talent developing within local university programmes as well as the broader Western Australian writing community.
Generational
by Dylan Dartnell
Your hand cracks open a cold one
underneath the beating afternoon sun
folds my heart with pressed
thumb and forefinger
and tosses them both aside.
Westerly: New Creative showcases emerging talent in contemporary writing, featuring authors from local university programmes as well as the broader Western Australian writing community.
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Contents
Daniel Juckes Paper Headstones
Marie O’Rourke A Mystery Memoir
Ross Jackson in singapore
Hessom Razavi White Noise
Guy Salvidge Frank
Laura Haddock Refreshment
Ella Harrison Off My Chest
Elizabeth Tan This is not a treehouse
Rachelle Rechichi The Bath
Sam Harris The Middle of Somewhere
Renee Pettitt-Schipp Portrait of a Poet Sitting with a Stone
Wendy Beach Lessons in Enjambment
Francesca Sasnaitis Mapping Coincidence
Emily J. Sun Lacrimosa dies illa
Susan Braghieri Black on Black
Elanna Herbert Processing Afghan Asylum Seekers
Dylan Dartnell Generational
Garry Henderson Making Spears
Melissa J. Davies Ripples
Josephine Clarke Aftermath
Kylie J. Stevenson Seasons past
Susan Laura Sullivan Glue
Miranda Aitken it was in the summer
Amy Hilhorst Mt Fuji Sunrise
Brenda Downing Last Days