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Shadowed 2022 charcoal pastel on watercolour paper 250 × 150 cm courtesy of the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney In 1987, while working in Paris, Julie Rrap made Secret Strategies/Ideal Spaces, a black-and-white mixed-media installation where she poses naked alongside her anamorphic drawings of Louvre classics like Degas and Manet. This current work is a close cousin of these works, and – wild, bold and positive – shows life drawing from inside out, rather than outside in.…

Patrick Pound is an artist working with collections as if on a dare. He has held over fifty solo exhibitions and been in over eighty curated exhibitions in Australia and abroad. In 2017 a vast survey of his work, Patrick Pound: The Great Exhibition, was held at the National Gallery of Victoria. In 2020 his work was included in David Campany’s Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie, and in 2022 his Museum of Falling and interconnected collections were shown at the International Centre of Photography in New York. Pound’s work with photography as a collecting device has been included in four key surveys of Australian photography. Of ‘Air Heading Right’, he writes, ‘Some things have nothing in common until you put them together.’…

Paul Muldoon was born in County Armagh in 1951. He now lives in New York. A former radio and television producer for the BBC in Belfast, he has taught at Princeton University for thirty-five years. He is the author of fourteen collections of poetry including Howdie-Skelp, in 2021. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Literature and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A Quickie In a hardtack factoryon Water Streetwe entertain the suspicion that victoryis rarely if ever sweet and we’ll almost certainly founderdespite our long slogthrough misadventure upon misadventuretoo small to log, suffering a far lesser wantthan our County Tyrone neighbor, John King,whom the Yandruwandhatook under their wing after the demiseof Burke and Wills,their pitching out along that far flung Thamesin the…

Subscribe Now And receive each issue of HEAT Australia’s international literary magazine Since its inception in 1996, HEAT has been renowned for a dedication to quality and a commitment to publishing innovative and imaginative poetry, fiction, essays and hybrid forms. Now, in the third series, we bring together a selection of the most interesting and adventurous Australian and overseas writers. HEAT is posted to subscribers every two months, forming a unique, cohesive whole. Your subscription supports independent literary publishing, and enables us to cultivate and champion new and challenging writing. Visit giramondopublishing.com/heat/ to subscribe. Submission Guidelines HEAT welcomes submissions of fiction, essays, poetry and translated works throughout the year. We encourage writing which gives full rein to the author’s voice, without the restriction of a word limit. In the case…

Xi Xi (1937–2022) was one of the most beloved and acclaimed writers to have emerged from Hong Kong. A stylistic innovator across genres, she published more than thirty books of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, and was awarded the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature in 2019. In 1989, Xi Xi was diagnosed with breast cancer, prompting her to record her reflections and experiences in her 1992 semi-autobiographical novel Mourning a Breast, from which these passages are taken. Jennifer Feeley is the translator of Carnival of Animals: Xi Xi’s Animal Poems and Not Written Words: Selected Poetry of Xi Xi, for which she won the 2017 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize and was longlisted for the 2017 National Translation Award in Poetry. She was awarded a 2019 National Endowment for the Arts…

Cameron Hurst is a writer and sessional academic who teaches art history at the University of Melbourne and Monash University. She is a contributing editor of Memo Review and Index Journal, founding editor of The Paris End, and co-host of the Clam & Jackie Bam show. THE MEDIUM IS A WOMAN IN HER SIXTIES, with long, thin, blonde hair stretched back into a ponytail. She rises from her chair and moves to the centre of the stage. Energy in the room shifts immediately. Everyone goes still and silent and sits up slightly taller in their white plastic chairs. A sense of dutifulness had accompanied the guided meditations, the reverend’s reminders to the congregation (pay yearly membership fees, book a table at Psychic High Tea, check the website for more information…

The new novel from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author Alexis Wright, is now available. Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale of imagery for which Alexis Wright has become renowned. In a small town dominated by a haze cloud, which heralds both an ecological catastrophe and a gathering of the ancestors, a crazed visionary seeks out donkeys as the solution to the global climate crisis and the economic dependency of the Aboriginal people. His wife seeks solace from his madness in following the dance of butterflies and scouring the internet to find out how she can seek repatriation for her Aboriginal/Chinese family to China. One of their sons, called Aboriginal Sovereignty, is determined to commit suicide. The other, Tommyhawk,…

HEAT congratulates Ren Arcamone whose debut short story, ‘Allen’, published in Series 3 Number 2, has been awarded a PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. The PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers recognises twelve writers who have made outstanding debuts in English-language literary magazines in the previous year. The winners are chosen by a panel of distinguished judges, and published in Catapult’s annual anthology, Best Debut Short Stories 2023: The PEN America Dau Prize. For those who missed it, ‘Allen’ is available to read online at giramondopublishing.com/heat/archive. Bravo Ren!…

Judith Beveridge is one of Australia’s most acclaimed poets. Winner of the Prime Minister’s Literary Award and the New South Wales and Victorian Premiers’ Awards, she is a highly regarded critic, editor and teacher of poetry. She has published seven collections of poetry, most recently Sun Music: New and Selected Poems. She is a recipient of the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal and the Christopher Brennan Award for lifetime achievement in poetry. She was poetry editor for Meanjin from 2005 to 2015, and co-editor of the anthology Contemporary Australian Poetry. Bluebottles So many swimmers ran out of the sea, branded with welts,or wearing scarlet copies of the tentacles of a swarm of bluebottles.They limped, yelled, rubbed sand, or poured water on the stingers,and some, unsure of the correct first aid, applied…

Katerina Gibson is the author of Women I Know, a collection of stories, which has been shortlisted for the 2022 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and the Glenda Adams Prize for New Writing. Her stories have appeared in Granta, Overland, The Lifted Brow and the Kill Your Darlings 2020 New Australian Fiction anthology. Her short story ‘Fertile Soil’ was the Pacific regional winner of the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize and was recently translated into Italian. Katerina graduated with First Class Honours from the University of Melbourne, where she was a Felix Meyer Scholar. EMILY WAS IN LOVE WITH HER BOSS and everyone knew it. Or she felt they would be stupid not to, her emotions so obvious they might as well be carved…

Fiction Alexis Wright Praiseworthy Shaun Prescott The Town Jon Fosse Septology (trans. Damion Searls) Shaun Prescott Bon and Lesley 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 Non-fiction Imants Tillers Credo 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 Autumn Royal The Drama Student Lucy Dougan Monster Field Michael Farrell Googlecholia Lisa Gorton Mirabilia Zheng Xiaoqiong In the Roar of the Machine (trans. Eleanor Goodman) Lionel Fogarty Harvest…

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 8 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. Giramondo Publishing is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts. This project is supported by the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund.…