Special 50th Anniversary Issue
Westerly 2005 v.50
Poems
Caroline Caddy
Lucy Dougan
John Kinsella
Kristen Lang
Jessika Tong
Miriam W. Lo
John Mateer
D. J. Huppatz
Ouyang Yu
J. P. Quinton
Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Megan McKinlay
Meg McNena
Jean Kent
Tracy Ryan
Adrian Caesar
Roland Leach
Andrew Lansdown
Michale Heald
Barbara Temperton
Philip Salom
Ross Bolleter
jeff Guess
Stephen Muecke
paul Fahey
Diane Fahey
Shane McCauley
Nigel Gray
Linda Weste
Louis Armand
Syd Harrex
Fay Zwicky
Sarah French
Andrew Taylor
Stories
Prison Diary - Robert Drewe
from The Concert Angels - Sari Smith
Lingua - Peter Manning
from An Olive Branch for Sante - Antonio Casella
from The Censors' White Flare - Simone Lazaroo
from Naatj - Kim Scott
Peter Meeting Judas in Heaven - Alf Taylor
The Black Shoes - Tess Williams
The Realms of the Unreal - Stephen Dedman
Quietly Dead, Quietly Buried - Van Ikin
A Very Pale Meat - Marion M. Campbell
from Arriving - Terri-ann White
from Genesis - Rebecca Smith
Still Life - Kate Lyons
Sisters - John Saul
from Texas - Sarah Hay
West Coast World - David Wilkinson
The English Class - Ouyang Yu
The Floating Ophelias - Chris McLeod
Skin - Marcella Polain
Articles
Bruce Bennett on Westerly Through the Rear-View Mirror
Michael Ackland on The Aims and Art of Robert Drewe's Fiction
Myint Zan on Minthuwun: A Tribute to a Gentle Burmese Poet
Karen Welberry on Horse-Breaking as Metaphor in Australian Cultural Discourse
Robert Dixon on Tim Winton, Cloudstreet and the Field of Australian Literature
Review Essays
Kerryn Goldsworthy on recent fiction
Syd Harrex on new Australian poetry, 2004-2005
Robert Dixon on the year's work in non-fiction
Photographs by Graeme Kinross-Smith
Peter Cowan, collector of bottles
Mary Durack, at her home in Perth, W.A.
Randolph Stow, at the family grave plot, Sand Springs Station, Geraldton, W.A.
T. A. G. Hungerford, W.A. writer
Judah Waten, in his study, Box Hill, Melbourne
Australian writers at poetry reading, Adelaide Writers' Fesitval