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Westerly 58:1

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October 2013, no. 355

Westerly 58:1 edited by Delys Bird and Tony Hughes-d’Aeth

Westerly Centre, $19.95 pb, 243 pp, 9780987318022

Westerly 58:1

by
October 2013, no. 355

Westerly’s descriptive subtitle (‘the best in writing from the West’) is a modest claim given its national and international reach. A feast of poetry includes offerings by familiar locals like Kevin Gillam, Andrew Lansdown, and Shane McCauley alongside poets such as Kevin Hart and Knute Skinner. There are translations of Xi’an poet, Allen Zhu Jian, by Liang Yujing; and from Russian, by Peter Porter, of poems by Eugene Dubnov. The fiction includes work by Nepali writer Smriti Ravindra, and by Shokoofeh Azar, translated by Persian–English translator Rebecca Stengal, based in France. Hardly surprising, then, that the volume resonates with a sense of diversity and literary substance.

Carmel Macdonald Grahame reviews 'Westerly 58:1', edited by Delys Bird and Tony Hughes-d’Aeth

Westerly 58:1

edited by Delys Bird and Tony Hughes-d’Aeth

Westerly Centre, $19.95 pb, 243 pp, 9780987318022

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