Table of contents for HEAT Series 3 Number 14 in HEAT

Cadaveric Time 1995 25 × 16 cm acrylic and gesso on paper courtesy of Hamish McKay, Estate Giovanni Intra and Sydney Sydney Cadaveric Time is one of six early paintings currently on view at Sydney Sydney gallery by the New Zealand artist, writer and gallerist Giovanni Intra (1968–2002). In a 1996 exhibition catalogue, The Chartwell Collection: The Self and Other Inventions, curator William McAloon wrote of the works: ‘Giovanni Intra’s white on black text paintings have the “look” of sixties and seventies conceptual art and, within a New Zealand context, the painted biblical quotations of Colin McCahon. But Intra’s work presents the high seriousness of neither, instead opting for a conspiratorial montage of fantasies: a recitation of experimental drugs, CIA plots, psychiatry and the influence of “Hollyweird”.’…

Lauren Aimee Curtis was born in Sydney. She is the author of Dolores and Strangers at the Port. In 2023, she was named on Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists list. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in Granta, The White Review and Fireflies, among other publications. She holds a PhD in Literary Studies from the University of Technology Sydney, where she wrote her dissertation on the work of Renata Adler and Elizabeth Hardwick. YESTERDAY, I LEFT LISBON ON A BUS. The terminal smelt like piss. I saw pink apartments on the edge of the city, white cemeteries and dying palm trees, a junkyard, cranes everywhere. I was on my way to Fátima. I was sitting next to a nun. She was a small woman with dark eyes and…

Norman Erikson Pasaribu is a Toba Batak writer. Their collection of poems Sergius Seeks Bacchus (tr. Tiffany Tsao) won a PEN Translates Award and was published in 2019. Their collection of stories Happy Stories, Mostly (tr. Tiffany Tsao) was met with critical acclaim. It won the 2022 Republic of Consciousness Prize and was longlisted in the 2022 International Booker Prize. A Dutch Boy Came to My Reading and for Ellen 1) he followed me on Instagram, I followed him back just to be kind,he sent me DMs about doing research on Indonesian lit, for his PhDin Postcolonial Studies, and he asked me recommendations(documentaries to watch, people to talk to, bookshops to visit) and ifI would have a coffee with him to practise his ‘Bahasa Indonesia’and I said no because I…

Simryn Gill (1959) is a Singapore-born, Sydney-based artist whose methods include sculpture, photography, drawing and writing. With Tom Melick she runs Stolon Press, a publisher of small-run books, pamphlets and posters. AT SEA – In a state of mind resembling the condition of a ship which is out of sight of land and has lost her bearings; in a state of uncertainty or perplexity, at a loss. Oxford English Dictionary Sometimes when you’re invited to speak about something, your own work, and you haven’t thought in advance what you’re going to say, the mild terror can work in your favour, and you find yourself figuring out in front of all those people what you hadn’t quite understood before. Recently I was invited on a panel about contemporary landscape photography, with…

Juan Carlos Mestre, poet and visual artist, was born in Villafranca del Bierzo, in León, Spain, in 1957, under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. He studied at the University of Barcelona. Mestre’s poems use dream and memory to explore the conditions of exile and the everyday. He is the author of numerous collections, including La casa roja (2008), which won the National Poetry Prize awarded by Spain’s Ministry of Culture, and La bicicleta del panadero (2012), which won the Premios de la Crítica. Peter Boyle is a poet and translator living and working on Dharug land. He has published eleven books of poetry, including, most recently, Companions, Ancestors, Inscriptions. As a translator, his books include Anima by José Kozer, The Trees: Selected Poems of Eugenio Montejo and Three Poets: Olga…

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. The Giramondo Publishing Company is grateful for the support of Western Sydney University in the implementation of its book publishing program. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body. This project is supported by the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund.…

Ana Martins Marques was born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in 1977. She has a PhD in Comparative Literature from the Federal University of Minas Gerais and is the author of five poetry collections, A vida submarina (2009), Da arte das armadilhas (2011), O livro das semelhanças (2015), Livro dos jardins (2019) and Risque esta palavra (2021). Da arte das armadilhas won the Brazilian National Library Foundation Prize and was shortlisted for the Portugal Telecom Award, O livro das semelhanças was awarded third place in the 2016 Prêmio Oceanos, and Risque esta palavra was shortlisted for the same award in 2022. Alison Entrekin is an Australian literary translator from the Portuguese. She has translated many of Brazil’s most beloved and iconic literary works, including novels by Clarice Lispector, Chico Buarque and…

Dominic Smith grew up in Sydney and now lives in Seattle, Washington. He is the author of six novels, including The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, which was a New York Times bestseller and a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. His essays, reviews, and short fiction have appeared in numerous publications, including The Atlantic, Texas Monthly, the Chicago Tribune, The New York Times and The Australian. He is a recipient of the Dobie Paisano Fellowship from the Texas Institute of Letters, a New Works Grant from the Australia Council and a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His most recent novel is Return to Valetto. Johannes Vermeer Dutch, 1632–1675 The Concert 1663–1666 oil on canvas 72.5 × 64.7 cm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Stolen,…