Table of contents for HEAT Series 3 Number 17 in HEAT

Untitled II, 2024 Oil on linen 92 x 66cm Courtesy the artist and Sutton Gallery, Melbourne Photography Andrew Curtis Ann Debono’s painting plays on the impossibility of a purely faithful depiction, exposing the construction and artifice concealed within realistic images. Untitled II is from the series Starview, a suite of five monochrome paintings that cite the artist’s extensive photographic study of the construction of the Westgate Bypass Flyover, adjacent to the cargo docks on Footscray Road in Naarm/Melbourne. The title Starview alludes to the Melbourne Star, a defunct Ferris wheel in Docklands, adjoining the Footscray Road site. The Melbourne Star presents a latently dynamic visual experience that can no longer be consummated. This view would encompass cargo docks, articulated lorries, trains and rail corridors, construction vehicles and machinery, cargo ships,…

Noëlle Janaczewska is a playwright, poet and essayist. The author of The Book of Thistles and the collection Scratchland, she is the recipient of multiple awards and fellowships, including the 2020 NSW Premier’s Digital History Prize for Experiment Street, and a Windham-Campbell Prize from Yale for her body of work as a dramatist. Noëlle’s recent productions include: The Past Is a Wild Party; Mrs C Private Detective and The End of Winter. The Past Is a Wild Party is a performance essay – a term Janaczewska uses to describe a strand of her writing which blends the essay and the theatrical monologue with a range of other sources and genres. The Past Is a Wild Party was produced in Sydney by Siren Theatre Company and opened at Qtopia’s Loading Dock…

Eirill Alvilde Falck is a Norwegianborn writer and translator who lives in the United States. Her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Hopkins Review, and Poetry Magazine. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, where she was later a Zell Fellow. She was a 2020–2022 Iowa Arts Fellow at the University of Iowa, where she completed a master’s degree in Literary Translation. While at the University of Iowa, she received the Stanley Award for International Research, for her work on translations of Edvard Munch’s journals. She is the recipient of the John Wagner Prize and the Hopwood Award, and has received support from the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation, the Clarion Foundation, and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. Eirill is…

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.…

Indigo Bailey is a Tasmanian critic and fiction writer living in Naarm/Melbourne. She edits the film criticism publication Rough Cut and in 2023 she received the Island Nonfiction Prize for an essay about rain sound. FROM AN EARLY AGE, MY PENCHANT FOR INVISIBILITY was clear. I listened to other mothers from behind my mother’s knees. You know, your daughter, X, is a very X girl. I was easily substituted for other girls, given new names. I took responsibility for their achievements and crimes, collecting their valentines and detention slips in my satchel. When I grew tired of crouching under slides during games of hide-and-seek, I simply slumped against a wall, and won nonetheless. At home, I could go forgotten all evening. My mother would be so busy feeding my brother…

Vidyan Ravinthiran teaches at Harvard. His latest books are Asian/Other, a fusion of memoir with poetry criticism, and Avidya, his third book of verse. Next time it’s said, with that infuriating head-shrug—acquiescent jocundwobble, figure of eight—or with a sniff-kiss of my scalp everything happens for a reason —I won’t fight it. I won’t citecasualties of the war or tsunami,innocents in prison, nor incendiaristscloser to home. everything happens for a reason said that courtier—a Tamil Leibnizeven when the king by accidentsliced with a letter-opener his own pinky offand locked our man up for those words. A year later, while hunting,said kingwas captured by thoseseeking a sacrifice to their god: seeing his lopped hand—impure!—they let him go. And sothe king set the courtier free:‘I see now your wisdom. But that yearyou spent…

Fiction Brian Castro Chinese PostmanXi Xi Mourning a Breast (trans. Jennifer Feeley)Beverley Farmer AloneAnne de Marcken It Lasts Forever and Then It’s OverJonathan Buckley TellMax Easton Paradise EstateNicholas Jose The IdealistPip Adam AuditionSanya Rushdi HospitalAlexis Wright PraiseworthyShaun Prescott The TownJon Fosse Septology (trans. Damion Searls) Non-fiction Nikos Papastergiadis John Berger and MeBonny Cassidy MonumentImants Tillers Credo Poetry Suneeta Peres da Costa The ProdigalHasib Hourani rock flightJudith Beveridge TintinnabulumKate Fagan Song in the GrassManisha Anjali Naag MountainKate Middleton TelevisionAmy Crutchfield The CyprianLouise Carter Golden Repairπ.O. The TourLuke Beesley In the PhotographGrace Yee Chinese FishAutumn Royal The Drama StudentLucy Dougan Monster Field For more information visit giramondopublishing.com.…

Alice Allan produces the Poetry Says podcast. Her books are The Empty Show from Rabbit Poets, which was commended in the Anne Elder Award, and the chapbook Blanks from Slow Loris. Her poems have appeared in Island, Australian Book Review, Rabbit, Griffith Review, Southerly, Westerly and Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry. Louise Carter is a Sydney poet whose work has appeared in Best Australian Poems (2012 & 2015), Cordite, Meanjin, Westerly and other publications. Her poem ‘Hot Clouds’ was highly commended in the 2018 Judith Wright Poetry Prize and in 2020 her poem ‘History of Sadness’ was highly commended in the Blake Poetry Prize. Louise’s first collection Golden Repair was published in 2023 by Giramondo. This is an excerpt from Alice Allan and Louise Carter’s I Remain Optimistic, which represents five…

Ursula Robinson-Shaw is a writer from Aotearoa, living in Naarm/Melbourne. Her recent work can be found in Sydney Review of Books, Paraphase and Going Down Swinging. She is co-director of sick leave. MOTHS! IN EVERYTHING. SHE TURNED out her pockets on the way to work, full, as she’d suspected, of grit, their horrible sandy eggs, strange all-coloured lint from the house entire. Romy loved her work; it provided a break from the moths, or more precisely it left little space for the mind, the moths being, more than a pestilence, a kind of metaphysical rash she could not correct. She had recently taken a job as a policy analyst at the Lou McEnright Foundation, a non-partisan, for-profit think tank, which worked towards a sustainable future by empowering young people and…

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