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New Writing from In this Issue 62.2 Western Australia Ouyang Yu Fiction Sampurna Chattarji Poetry Christopher Kelen Essays Josephine Wilson Reviews Huang Yuanshen 1 | ‘to a poet, my peer’ today, we have a destination Zhou Zan (trans. Iris FAN Xing) you want to take me to a place, and if I choose to follow 2 | Westerly 62.2 Westerly Volume 62 Number 2, 2017 New Writing from 62.2 Western Australia Notice of Intention Publisher Fiction Westerly has converted the full backfile of Westerly Centre, The University of Western Australia, Australia Poetry Westerly (1956–) to electronic text, available General Editor to readers and researchers on the Westerly Interview Catherine Noske website, www.westerlymag.com.au. This Essay work has been supported by a grant from Associate Editor the Cultural Fund of the Copyright Agency Josephine Taylor Limited. 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Poetry Christina Lloyd Dimples Whiskey 21 Misumi Mizuki Mark Floyer Contemporary The Gift 177 From the Editor 7 Post Tropical 22 Japanese Poets in Ishikawa Itsuko Sampurna Chattarji Translation Soles— 183 The Dictation Test: I 61 2 sunken islands. Kawaguchi Harumi 3 kinds of rock. 63 Welcome Home 187 Reneé Pettitt-Schipp Kono Satoko Pinggir 76 Head Ache 191 Weaving Ketupat on Pulu Misaki Takako Cheplok 77 Into White Darkness 195 Ross Jackson Oceania as I imagined it 86 The Lucy Dougan Sanna Peden China– Introduction 242 keunggulan 110 Australia Huang Yuanshen Timmah Ball Writing A Passion for Australian Literary Peeling 155 Centre Studies 244 Ouyang Yu Zhou Xiaojin 8.31am, 4.13pm 164 A Critical Survey of Chinese Journal Articles on Australian Christopher Kelen Essays John Mateer Creative Ella Jeffery Invisible Genres, or on the Literature in China 1979–2016 A Mirror in the Dark 9 how the hundred schools 250 Non‑Fiction contend 166 Virtual and the Actual 23 Caitlin Prince Translated by Iris FAN Xing Shane McCauley Siti Sarah Ridhuan Sitting on My Grandmother’s Bahasa Indonesia/Melayu & A Selection of Four Poems by Skirts 112 Gion Shimu in Snow Chinese Women 265 (Hiroshige) 168 Yolngu-Matha—recognising Isabelle Li familiar words in unfamiliar Josephine Wilson The Aristotelian Questions 231 Mike Heald contexts 49 Umbilicus 270 On the Theft of My New TV, Rachel Watts or Watching with Ryokan 175 Fiona Morrison Fan Dai Insha’Allah 296 ‘A transfiguration of my local Saturday Evenings 274 Elaine Barker patriotism’ 87 Gay Lynch The Finger 204 Elizabeth Tan If You Hear a Baby Crying 318 Dennis Haskell A Life, Passing 291 Shane Strange Fay Zwicky and ‘the riddle of the River 205 self’s existence’ 217 Dennis Haskell Yingjie M. Cheng Days without end 215 Modernism En Route 304 Mona Zahra Attamimi Scent 228 Liang Yujing Reviews Jen Bowden Call Me Eugene 230 A Review of The Permanent Rose van Son Resident by Roanna Gonsalves 334 Remembering Singapore 295 Rebecca Harris Shey Marque A Review of Billy Sing by Ouyang Yu Alligatorwood 328 337 From the Editor Fiction Agustinus Wibowo The Sea 53 Mohammed Massoud Morsi The Home of Lost Angels 65 Mark Fabiano Homecoming in the Garden of the Full Moon 78 Katinka Smit The Blue 101 Roanna Gonsalves The Dan Disney, Jessica L. Wilkinson George Jarvis, Black Hindoo Melbourne‑ and Cassandra Atherton Servant, Port Jackson, 1809 Since its infancy, Westerly has had a long interest in the literatures and Seoul ‘bending in all (Preparatory Study) 150 cultures of the Indian Ocean, southern and eastern Asia. Poised on the Intercultural directions everywhere’ : a juddering, glimpsing, Parvati Angana west coast, we are constantly looking out, facing away from mainland Poetry God Willing 159 Exchange eidólonging of poets. 121 Australia. This space is not an empty one. It is rich with a history of Lisa Gorton Bethany Rawson movement and exchange, going back (as Sarah Ridhuan’s essay in this Yeonhui 134 Goji no Chaimu issue reminds us) well beyond Australia’s colonisation. (The Five O’Clock Bell) 169 Bonny Cassidy Curated with a special focus, this issue continues the Magazine’s Ghostin 136 Jen Banyard exploration of Australia’s geographic and cultural position within the Footprints 198 Shields 137 Asian and Indian Ocean region. It was imagined first with the concept of Ann Dombroski opening a creative space to foster these diverse cultural networks, and B0-Seon Shim Siem Reap 206 Mangwon 138 explore the connections embodied by that fluid space of ocean. It collects Belinda Hermawan the work of both Australian and international authors and translators. So-Yeon Kim Xié xie 329 Mangwon-dong 140 Their writing is marked by the conditions of exchange—it operates across ‘Coffin Bay’ 142 complex negotiations of language and cultural positioning, it draws in implicit histories and traditions from a myriad of different places, it Dan Disney that winter, these protests 143 emerges through conversation, at moments in dual languages. In all of spring, Hannam-dong 144 these ways, this is a collection which (I hope) will be read as conveying too the unique dynamic of transnational connection. Kent MacCarter Mujeongwiundong Mangwon- There is a purpose in making space for this sensation. Reminding our- dong (North Korean blanket selves of our involvement in these currents of connection and exchange remix) 145 is part of remembering the universality of the human experience, even Yideum Kim while it points simultaneously to difference. The tension in this experience Ugg Boots 146 is seemingly productive, in a creative sense—many of the submissions we ‘Face Made of Steel’ 147 Submissions 342 received for this issue pushed at the boundaries of expression. The work Jessica L. Wilkinson Subscriptions 343 featured from specific projects (Japanese poetry in translation, work Reflected 148 from the China-Australia Writing Centre and a Korean-Australian writing exchange) shows this again and again as a common feature of the work produced regardless of the cultural connections sustaining it. 7 | Catherine Noske I am grateful for the involvement of all these writers, and for the A Mirror in the Dark Ella Jeffery’s poetry, essays, vast range of cultural connections which were demonstrated in the Ella Jeffery reviews and fiction have submissions we received. I am grateful too for the wonderful team of appeared in Meanjin, Westerly, Best Australian Poems and people who have helped bring the issue together. The contribution and elsewhere. In 2017 she won the energy of Josephine Taylor as our new Associate Editor has been exciting CAL Award for Best Poetry, was as a marker of the Magazine’s continued growth; while the insight and shortlisted for the Val Vallis dedication of Lucy Dougan, Chris Arnold, Asha Ryan in the office, and Award for Poetry and completed Cassandra Atherton, Rachel Robertson and Elfie Shiosaki beyond, has a residency at Varuna, the been generous beyond expectations in taking up the challenge of an National Writers’ House. She is international scope and range of focus. based in Brisbane. The reading for this issue left a strong impression of the Australian nation as oceanic. In her essay, Fiona Morrison points out that, according to Christina Stead, to be Australian is always already to be a citizen of People always used to tell me ‘Shanghai’s not real China’. I heard it from the sea. Perhaps immersion in the fluid spaces of the writing here has locals, from expats like myself, from visitors who had spent a week or changed my view of land.