Table of contents for HEAT Series 3 Number 11 in HEAT

The Intro (Or Don’t You Have a Phone?) 2019 pencil, pen and ink on paper 25 × 19 cm courtesy of the artist Sydney artist Ruark Lewis is widely recognised for his works which involve a reworking of literary, musical and archival art texts – in this case, transcription drawings from the use (2017, www.theuse.info) by the late Chris Mann. ‘A transcription,’ he says, ‘is to cut or move across, to go beyond, or pass over. So if I draw the sound of words, first faintly outlined in pencil (with that trace the voice remains), then further my nib dipped in the ink reforms the body, like a figure or character standing on the lines, then I finely mask (with another layer of pen work) the lyric vocal impulse of…

Sara Mesa is the author of ten works of fiction, including Scar (winner of the Ojo Critico Prize), Four by Four (a finalist for the Herralde Prize), An Invisible Fire (winner of the Premio Málaga de Novela), and Cara de Pan. Her books have been translated into more than ten different languages, and widelypraisedfortheirconcise, sharp style. Her novel, Un Amor, from which this story is drawn, will shortly be published in English. Katie Whittemore translates from the Spanish. Her work has appeared in Two Lines, The Los Angeles Review, The Brooklyn Rail, InTranslation and elsewhere. Current projects include novels by Spanish authors Sara Mesa, Javier Serena, Aliocha Coll, Aroa Moreno Durán, Nuria Labari, Katixa Agirre and Juan Gómez Bárcena. THE HOUSE IN LA ESCAPA is a squat structure, single-storey, with…

Evelyn Juers is an art and literary critic, essayist, Brontë and biography scholar, and the author of House of Exile (2008), The Recluse (2012) and The Dancer (2021). MORE THAN OTHER GENRES, biography defies methodology. So how do we read it? Compliantly, absorbing psychological insights, historical context, for entertainment, to discover how a life was lived? Or pushing back, interpretively, digressively, reading between lines, working with but also against the subject, the author, the biographical imperative? This is an essay on the second ‘method’, hardly a method at all, rather a walk on some biographical byways, a personalised itinerary. Asking ‘How should one read a book?’ in The Common Reader, Virginia Woolf advises relatively, that even if I could answer the question for myself, the answer would apply only to…

Mona Kareem is the author of three poetry collections. Her poetry has been translated into nine languages, and has appeared (in English) in POETRY, Poetry Northwest, Michigan Quarterly, Poetry London and Modern Poetry in Translation, among others. She is a recipient of a 2021 literary grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Kareem holds a PhD in Comparative Literature and works as an assistant professor of Middle East Studies at Washington University St. Louis. Her translations include Ashraf Fayadh’s Instructions Within (nominated for a Best Translated Book Award), Ra’ad Abdulqadir’s Except for this Unseen Thread and Octavia Butler’s Kindred. Sara Elkamel is a poet, journalist and translator living between her hometown, Cairo, and New York City. She holds an MA in arts journalism from Columbia University, and an MFA…

Suneeta Peres da Costa lives on unceded Gadigal land. Her most recent book, Saudade, focuses on the legacies of Portuguese colonialism and the Goan diaspora in pre-Independence Angola. It was shortlisted for the 2019 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, the 2020 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, and was a finalist in the 2020 Tournament of Books. Her literary honours include a Fulbright Scholarship, the Australia Council for the Arts BR Whiting Studio Residency, Rome, and an Asialink Arts Creative Exchange to North India. Her first collection of poetry, The Prodigal, will be published by Giramondo in 2024. What He Did and Didn’t Eat Not – olives. Pumpkin but not zucchini; carrots but not peas. Eggs, scrambled, poached or baked but never, ever raw. So too mushrooms. Hard cheese but oh, no,…

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 11 has been prepared in collaboration with Ligare Book Printers 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. 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.…