Table of contents for HEAT Series 3 Number 1 in HEAT

IT IS AN HONOUR to be relaunching HEAT after a decade-long hiatus, with five such distinguished writers. At the close of our second series, print seemed to be firmly on the way out. ‘The electronic medium beckons,’ the editorial of that last issue declared, ‘with its heavenly promise of weightlessness and omnipresence.’ And yet here we are: Australia’s international literary journal, available once again as a beautiful printed object, albeit a different looking one. We’ve moved away from the compendium-like issues of the past to a smaller, more intimate conception of the magazine, published every two months, that we hope will travel lightly and defy distraction. Jenny Grigg’s design emphasises our new tempo, boldly centring our contributors on the cover, using a tactile minimalism to great effect. As readers of…

Sarah Holland-Batt is the author of two poetry volumes, Aria and The Hazards, which received the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry in 2016, and a book of essays on contemporary poetry, Fishing for Lightning: The Spark of Poetry. Her third book of poems, The Jaguar, is forthcoming in May. Pikes Peak Hiking near the timberline at twelve thousand feetmy father mistakes an almost silent stroke for vertigo—immobilisation that arrives like a tsunami,the body withdrawing to its furthest reaches,brain stem stoppered for a paralysing second.He sits winded in a rubble of rose granitestaring at the infinite regression of quaking aspen,valley after valley to the horizon,stunned by his own elevation. Then fear,comprehension: he has lost the languagefor water, aspirin. An icy breeze shearingoff snow, heads of spruce and bristleconestretching all the…

And receive each issue of HEAT Australia’s international literary magazine Since its inception in 1996, HEAT has been renowned for a dedication to quality and a commitment to publishing innovative and imaginative poetry, fiction, essays, criticism and hybrid forms. Now, in the third series, we are excited to bring together a selection of the most interesting and adventurous Australian and overseas writers. In coming issues, expect new fiction from Samuel Wagan Watson, Aniela Rodríguez, Madeleine Watts, and Pip Adam, poetry and art by Michael Farrell, a long essay on fascism in India by Amitava Kumar and much more. HEAT Series 3 will be posted to subscribers every two months, forming a unique, cohesive whole. Your subscription supports independent literary publishing and enables us to cultivate and champion new and challenging…

Fiction Jessica Au Cold Enough for Snow Max Easton The Magpie Wing Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life Pip Adam Nothing to See Fiona Kelly McGregor Buried Not Dead Non-fiction Evelyn Juers The Dancer: A Biography for Philippa Cullen Gerald Murnane Last Letter to a Reader Vanessa Berry Gentle and Fierce Anwen Crawford No Document Nicholas Jose and Benjamin Madden Antipodean China: Reflections on Literary Exchange Poetry Adam Aitken Revenants J. S. Harry New and Selected Poems Andy Jackson Human Looking Eunice Andrada Take Care Jane Gibian Beneath the Tree Line TobyFitch Sydney Spleen Song Lin The Gleaner Song Mark Anthony Cayanan Unanimal, Counterfeit, Scurrilous Kristen Lang Earth Dwellers For more information visit giramondopublishing.com/books/…

Brian Castro is the author of the prize-winning Australian classic Shanghai Dancing, and recipient of the 2014 Patrick White Award. His novels include The Garden Book and The Bath Fugues, both shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award. His most recent work, Blindness and Rage, won the 2018 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry. JOHN AUBREY ONCE SAID: ‘It’s a war between men and women. It’s not about Joan of Arc.’ He continued, ‘and anyway, beneath all that armor she had balls.’ Maybe it wasn’t Aubrey, but it sure as hell sounded like he would have said it. Given that he did or didn’t say it, who was Aubrey? He lived through the sacking of Oxford University; the English Civil War; the Great Fire of London. He was good at…

The Novel Prize is a biennial award for a book-length work of literary fiction written in English by published and unpublished writers around the world. The prize recognises works which explore and expand the possibilities of the form, and are innovative and imaginative in style. It offers US$10,000 to the winner and simultaneous publication by Giramondo Publishing in Australia and New Zealand, by Fitzcarraldo Editions in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and by New Directions in North America. Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au, the inaugural winner, was unanimously chosen from over 1500 entries. It is out now in English and forthcoming in fifteen languages around the world. Visit thenovelprize.com for more information. Submissions open in April 2022.…

Josephine Rowe is the author of three story collections and a novel, A Loving, Faithful Animal. Her story collection Here Until August was shortlisted for the 2020 Stella Prize. She is currently in residence at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Centre at the New York Public Library, researching a new novel. IT WAS MY TURN TO HOLD HER. I wrapped her in the special stuff. Then he wrapped us both in the special stuff, leaving a corner untucked to fold himself into. He still had the windows to seal over. We waited in the deepest part of the house and hoped that the light, when it came, might not reach us. (We imagined there would be light.) She slept and I shivered, though it was not cold, was almost…

Cristina Rivera Garza is the author of numerous works of poetry, fiction, and criticism. Recent and forthcoming publications in English translation include Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Taiga Syndrome, winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, and New and Selected Stories, out in April. Rivera Garza is Distinguished Professor and founder of the PhD Program in Creative Writing in Spanish at the University of Houston, Department of Hispanic Studies. In 2020, she was named a MacArthur Fellow in Fiction. Sarah Booker is a literary translator and doctoral candidate in Hispanic Literature at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Her translations include Cristina Rivera Garza’s The Iliac Crest and Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country, and Mónica Ojeda’s Jawbone. Robin…

A young woman has arranged a holiday with her mother in Japan. They travel by train, visit galleries and churches, eat together in small cafés and restaurants and walk along the canals at night, aware of the autumn rain and the prospect of snow. They talk, or seem to talk: about the weather, horoscopes, memories; about the mother’s family in Hong Kong, and the daughter’s own formative experiences. How much is spoken between them, how much is thought but not spoken? Cold Enough for Snow is a reckoning and an elegy: with extraordinary skill, Au creates an enveloping atmosphere that expresses both the tenderness between mother and daughter, and the distance between them. ‘An intricate and multi-layered work of art – a complex and profound meditation on identity, familial bonds…

We respectfully acknowledge the Gadigal, Burramattagal and Cammeraygal peoples, the traditional owners of the lands where Giramondo’s offices are located. We extend our respects to their ancestors and to all First Nations peoples and Elders. HEAT Series 3 Number 1 has been prepared in collaboration with Ligare Book Printers, Avon Graphics, Ball & Doggett paper suppliers and Candida Stationery – we thank them for their support. The Giramondo Publishing Company is grateful for the support of Western Sydney University in the implementation of its book publishing program. Giramondo Publishing is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts.…