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Issue Details: First known date: 1998... vol. 43 no. 1 Autumn 1998 of Westerly est. 1956 Westerly
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 1998 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Office Pooli"The pool has gone: river bed tiled with baked mud,", Barbara Brandt , single work poetry (p. 5)
Castawayi"A strange bird,", Barbara Brandt , single work poetry (p. 5)
Settlementi"The road to the end of the Gorge", Barbara Brandt , single work poetry (p. 5)
Dusk Comes Early, Barbara Brandt , sequence poetry (p. 5-6)
Dusk Comes Earlyi"In the playground: monkey bars have dribbled rust.", Barbara Brandt , single work poetry (p. 5-6)
Terminologyi"Do I start with other lives, or do I start with mine?", Sarah French , single work poetry (p. 7-8)
Fallen Pearsi"Small green pears that have dropped", Shane McCauley , single work poetry (p. 8)
Hometown Boysi"My concept of Arcadia", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 9-10)
Two Part Inventioni"The hermit, the rabbi,", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 10-11)
Initium Sapientiae Timor Dominii"All the Latin in the world's inscriptions", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 12-13)
Cutting the Tight-Rope, Lau Siew Mei , single work short story (p. 14-16)
Sharks, Chris Newton , single work short story (p. 17-20)
The Complexity of Aboriginal Identity : Mudrooroo and Sally Morgan, Mary Ann Hughes , single work criticism (p. 21-27)
Two Gifts for Annie, Joy Dettman , single work short story

Annie is a deaf girl in a small town who enjoys going to school. An inspector has come to see how she and her teacher, Mr Fletcher, manage in the class. The inspector wants to put her in an institution or a special school, questions why she hasn't been given a hearing aid, and pushes for segregated white and Aboriginal people seating in the school. Mr Fletcher defends against all these demands, insisting that Annie is content with where she is.

After the inspector leaves, Annie writes a poem about her resilience in class, comparing herself to a weed; Mr Fletcher notices and has her stay after class. They discuss her domestic abuse situation and her intelligence. Mr Fletcher gifts her a dictionary that belonged to his dead son, and the grocer Annie's family sells eggs to gifts her broken biscuits on her way home.

 (p. 28-36)
Re-Making, Cecily Scutt , single work short story (p. 37-39)
John Kinsella in Conversation with Bruce Dawe, John Kinsella (interviewer), single work biography interview (p. 40-45)
For Gloria, in Her Final Illness Sic Transit Gloria Mundi (for My Wife in Her Final Illness)i"Never to come home again, the house cries out...", Bruce Dawe , single work poetry (p. 46-47)
The Iconography of Droughti"The colour and texture of The Dry", John Kinsella , single work poetry (p. 48-49)
These Moments: Mt Victoriai"Nameless they are to me", John Mateer , single work poetry (p. 50)
The Unimaginablei"North of the falls I fall silent", John Mateer , single work poetry (p. 51)
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