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Clare Murphy is a writer and editor currently completing a Master of Philosophy in Creative Writing Practice at Queensland University of Technology. Her recent and forthcoming work appears in Westerly, Island and Unlikely. She lives in Tulmur on the unceded lands of the Jagera, Yuggera and Ugarapul peoples. DEAR RESIDENT, This is how it begins – with a letter slipped under the door. With an architecturally inspired X for a logo, twisted into the shape of a house. With a brief black-and-white rectangle containing the words all trees will be removed and the land will be levelled at No. 23. I look up from the page to the neighbouring wall of trunks and fronds that spill over the chainwire fence, their bellies pressed against the chinks, rising and spreading, tall…

David Hayden was born in Ireland and lives in England. His writing has appeared in Granta, A Public Space, Zoetrope All-Story, The White Review, AGNI and The Georgia Review. His first book, Darker With the Lights On, was an Irish Times ‘Book of the Year’. AUSTRALIAN VOICES REMIND KATE OF DEAD PEOPLE. The people she loved as a child, who loved sun and ciggies. More than life itself, as it turned out. A large cup of syrupy black coffee was on the bench table. Her left hand was bunched in a fist to conceal a dozen or so almonds. She pinched out a couple with the fingers of her right hand and passed them to her mouth, crunched and chewed, and took a drink. Cassie sat next to her, hands…

Amy Leach lives in Montana and is the author of Things That Are and The Everybody Ensemble. Her work has appeared in The Best American Essays, The Best American Science and Nature Writing and numerous other publications, including Granta and A Public Space. She has been recognised with a Whiting Award and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. DIRT BEING SO GENERAL, it’s strange that it gets turned into singular things, like the pumpkin on my table, the fly on the pumpkin rubbing her front legs together, me. I was born with an antipathy to generalisation and everything I experienced subsequent to parturition exacerbated that antipathy. Still, there are a few generalisations I can go along with, like ‘Everything that exists is good,’ as St Augustine wrote, and ‘Everything that…

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 4 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.…

Yanni Florence, born Melbourne 1965, is a photographer and book designer who has eight published monographs: Self Conscious, 2009; Southland, 2014; Animal Life 2014; Street Porn, 2014; Immolation, 2015; HE IS IN THE CITY, 2017; Tram Windows, 2019; and Trees and Fences (collection of ten zines) 2020. His work is included in the National Gallery of Victoria’s collection and was exhibited at their Triennial in 2020–21. These Untitled photographs are from the series Trees and Fences 2015–20 which was first exhibited at ReadingRoom in 2022. They show the interaction of trees and fences. Sometimes planned interactions and sometimes unplanned, and sometimes just by themselves. Images pp. 25–33 Yanni Florence Untitled 2015– from the series Trees and Fences archival inkjet prints 42 × 29 cm courtesy of the artist and ReadingRoom…

Ella Skilbeck-Porter is a writer and poet living on unceded Wurundjeri Country in Naarm/Melbourne. She is a PhD candidate in French Studies at the University of Melbourne and is currently working on her first collection of poetry, These Are Different Waters, which was shortlisted for the 2021 Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest. Her work has appeared in journals such as Cordite, Rabbit, Runway, Going Down Swinging and Otoliths. Harbour The harbours outside the windoware now inside transplanted to the rosy skyfrom a day in bed that becomes every other day in bedweather that is neutral and calm passes in a feline way I keepthe same hours as the cats or the cats keep the same hoursas me sheltering grief, pregnancy a general malaise that is bone-deepand flourishing like water in…

Fiction George Alexander Mortal Divide: The Autobiography of Yiorgos Alexandroglou Luke Carman An Ordinary Ecstasy Norman Erikson Pasaribu Happy Stories, Mostly (trans. Tiffany Tsao) Jessica Au Cold Enough for Snow Max Easton The Magpie Wing Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life Pip Adam Nothing to See Non-fiction Bastian Fox Phelan How to Be Between Antigone Kefala Late Journals Evelyn Juers The Dancer: A Biography for Philippa Cullen Gerald Murnane Last Letter to a Reader Anwen Crawford No Document Vanessa Berry Gentle and Fierce Poetry Lisa Gorton Mirabilia Zheng Xiaoqiong In the Roar of the Machine (trans. Eleanor Goodman) Lionel Fogarty Harvest Lingo Tracy Ryan Rose Interior Claire Potter Acanthus Adam Aitken Revenants J.S. Harry New and Selected Poems Andy Jackson Human Looking Eunice Andrada Take Care Jane Gibian Beneath…

Ella Jeffery is a poet, editor and critic. Her debut collection of poems, Dead Bolt, won the Puncher & Wattmann Prize for a First Book of Poems and the Anne Elder Award, and was shortlisted for the Dame Mary Gilmore Award. Her poetry has appeared widely in journals and anthologies including Best Australian Poems, Meanjin, Griffith Review, Island and Southerly. She is the recipient of a Queensland Writers Fellowship, the Mick Dark Fellowship for Environmental Writing, and the Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award. She lives in Brisbane. Supertall 432 Park If I wanted stillness, I’d build a bungalow.Seeking more adventurous methodsof existence, I bought. Yes here. Unleashedfrom the marriage contract, I cravedheight and distance, the obvious formsof power. Now I own a lengthof this exposed nerve: in the…

Luke Beesley is a poet, artist and singer-songwriter. His most recent poetry collection, Aqua Spinach, was shortlisted for the ALS Gold Medal. His poetry has been published widely in Australia and internationally and has been translated into several languages. He lives and works on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung land (Melbourne). Time Piece I was rushing out of the house in the morning. The night before, I’d calculated the time it would take to drive out around peak hour next morning. It was. And the traffic canted into intersections via assumed breeze, invisible momentum that took me back to a very small childhood fear of the day’s adult inevitability. Or perhaps it was more about onrush: each adult in their not-somuch uncaring but distracted trajectories, en masse, racing forward, and that dawning,…

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