Table of contents for HEAT Series 3 Number 5 in HEAT

Jenny Erpenbeck, born in East Berlin in 1967, is the author of several works of fiction including The Book of Words; The Old Child; Visitation; The End of Days; Go, Went, Gone; and Kairos, recently published in German and forthcoming in English in 2023. These works of fiction, along with her collection of essays, Not a Novel, have been published in the United States by New Directions and in the United Kingdom by Granta. For her works, translated into thirty languages, she has won prizes including the Thomas Mann Prize (Germany), the Premio Strega (Italy) and the Lee Hochul Prize (South Korea). She lives with her family in Berlin. Kurt Beals is Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis. Beals has translated a wide…

Katharina Volckmer was born in Germany in 1987. She now lives in London where she works for a literary agency. The Appointment, her first novel, was published by Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2020. THAT’S WHERE I FOUND HIM, my mother said. That’s where he must have collapsed. Lying on his side, that’s how he met his inevitable fate. I laughed when my mother told me about this. There was something funny about picturing Fritz and his unshapely body in front of something as banal as a fridge. And even if he had become skinny towards the end of his life, his body strained by several unnamed illnesses, I’m sure that he was still ugly. His eyes too far away from each other to look into them without unease, his head too…

Oliver Driscoll is the author of the poetry collection I Don’t Know How That Happened (2020), and White Clouds Blue Rain (2021), which is made up of a series of triptychs, each with a work a poetry, a piece of essayistic prose, and a photographic image. He won the 2015 Lord Mayor’s Award for Narrative Nonfiction and was shortlisted for the 2019 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. Oliver lives in Melbourne where he co-runs the Slow Canoe live journal and chapbook press. The Famous Friendship Lily and Tom met at university. Quickly they became friends but never anything more. They had gone to the same high school but were so different then that they’d hardly had anything to do with each other. A few weeks after he turned…

Kate Middleton is an Australian writer. She is the author of the poetry collections Fire Season, which was awarded the Western Australian Premier’s Award for Poetry in 2009; Ephemeral Waters, shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award in 2014; and, most recently, Passage. From 2011–2012 she was the inaugural Sydney City Poet. I at last they put the poet on TV, the one they alwayshad to label: spinster, recluse, or else just too intense: in her corset and her petticoats, we see her burrowingto find her own blood, the monthly malady that starts within, and when she throws herself into the mostdramatic wail, declares her pain in the greatest ostentation, two taboos arise as once, against whichthere is no inoculation: a poet, already a near-fatal flaw, and, on…

Margaret Cavendish, Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy, A. Maxwell, 1666. Andrew Dalby, Cheese: A Global History, Reaktion Books, 2009. Carlo Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller, translated by John and Anne Tedeschi, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980. Julie Berger Hochstrasser, Still Life and Trade in the Dutch Golden Age, Yale University Press, 2007. Paul S. Kindstedt, Cheese and Culture: A History of Cheese and its Place in Western Civilization, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2012. Alfred Michiels, Histoire de la Peinture Flamande et Hollandaise, Librairie Ancienne et Moderne de A. Vandale, 1845–1848. Simon Schama, The Embarrassment of Riches, Collins, 1987. Émile Zola, The Belly of Paris, translated by Brian Nelson, Oxford University Press, 2007.…

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 5 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.…

Mary Jean Chan is a Hong Kong-Chinese poet, lecturer, editor and critic. Their first poetry collection Flèche won the 2019 Costa Book Award for Poetry and was shortlisted in 2020 for the International Dylan Thomas Prize, the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize and the Seamus Heaney Centre First Collection Poetry Prize. In 2021, Flèche was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist. Chan’s second collection, Bright Fear, is forthcoming from Faber in 2023. Chan recently co-edited 100 Queer Poems with Andrew McMillan. Chan is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing (Poetry) at Oxford Brookes University and lives in Oxford. I When I was young, I realised my bodywas something to be held back or keptin its place, so I have mastered the artof observation, how to watch faces fora frown or grimace:…

The only dream worth having is to dream that you will live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead.Arundhati Roy, The End of Imagination The gardener digs in another time, without past or future, beginning or end…As you walk in the garden you pass into this time – the moment of entering can never be remembered.Derek Jarman, Modern Nature Stephanie Radok is a writer and artist living on Kaurna country. She worked as an art critic and editor with Artlink, Artlink Indigenous and The Adelaide Review. Her books An Opening: Twelve Love Stories About Art – which was longlisted for the inaugural Stella Prize – and Becoming a Bird: Untold Stories About Art were published by Wakefield Press. Her work is in the collections of the…

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