Table of contents for HEAT Series 3 Number 6 in HEAT

Fiona Wright is a writer, editorand critic from Sydney. Her book ofessays Small Acts of Disappearance:Essays on Hunger won the 2016 NitaB. Kibble Award and the QueenslandLiterary Award for non-fiction, andwas shortlisted for the Stella Prizeand the New South Wales Premier’sLiterary Awards. Her first poetrycollection, Knuckled, won the 2012Dame Mary Gilmore Award, whileDomestic Interior was shortlisted forthe 2018 Prime Minister’s LiteraryAward for Poetry. Her most recentbook of essays is The World WasWhole. TIME, I KEPT HEARING PEOPLE SAY THAT YEAR, has broken. Time broke: as if it were an object knocked from a shelf, or an ancient, stuttering machine with parts worn through. I’m getting ahead of myself already. Time is a function of narrative. There are so many places where this all begins, undoubtedly more besides. Beginnings are never…

Oscar Schwartz is a writer andjournalist. His debut collection, TheHoneymoon Stage, was shortlisted forthe 2018 Queensland Literary Awardfor Poetry. He lives in Melbourne. One I arrive at the doctor’s office early in the morning. I have forgotten my mask and ask for one at the front desk. Then I take a seat in the waiting room, which looks like a professionally managed Airbnb. Exposed light bulbs and plastic ivy hang from the roof. There is a pink neon sign on the wall that says, in cursive, ‘better together’. The doctor, who wears blue chinos, a checkered shirt and R.M. Williams, calls me into his office. ‘And why are we here this morning,’ he asks without making eye contact. I tell him that I have been experiencing chest pain. ‘I see,…

Fiction 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 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 Lucy Dougan Monster Field Michael Farrell Googlecholia 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…

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Hanne Ørstavik published the novelCut in 1994 and embarked on a careerthat would make her one of the mostremarkable and admired authors inNorwegian contemporary literature.Her literary breakthrough came threeyears later with the publication ofLove, which in 2006 was voted thesixth best Norwegian book of the lasttwenty-five years in a prestigiouscontest in Dagbladet. Since then, theauthor has written several acclaimedand much-discussed novels andreceived a host of literary prizes.Her fifteenth novel, Ti Amo, waspublished in English in September. Martin Aitken’s translationsof Scandinavian literature arenumerous. His work has appearedon the shortlists of the 2017 DublinLiterary Award and the 2018 USNational Book Awards, as well as the2021 International Booker Prize. Forhis translation of Hanne Ørstavik’sLove he received the 2019 PENAmerica Translation Prize. ‘THE WHOLE HOUSE FELT DIFFERENT because both father and mother were away.’…

Zang Di was born in 1964 in Beijing,and is the celebrated author ofmany books of poetry, including TheSimplest Human Movements Primer,Emotional Education Primer, TheAssociation of Boiling and The LoquatBoy: Elegies. He has been featured atinternational festivals including theRotterdam Poetry Festival and thePrinceton Poetry Festival, and hasreceived numerous awards for bothhis poetry and his poetry criticism.He has been named one of China’s‘Ten Most Outstanding Poets’ onthree separate occasions, and is aprofessor in the Chinese Departmentat Peking University. Eleanor Goodman is the author ofthe poetry collection Nine DragonIsland, and the translator of theaward-winning books SomethingCrosses My Mind: Selected Poemsof Wang Xiaoni, Iron Moon: AnAnthology of Chinese Worker Poetry,The Roots of Wisdom: Poems by ZangDi and Days When I Hide My Corpsein a Cardboard Box: Poems of NataliaChan. She is a Research Associateat…

Amitava Kumar is a writer andjournalist. He was born in Ara, India,and grew up in the nearby town ofPatna, famous for its corruption,crushing poverty and deliciousmangoes. Kumar is the author ofthe novels Immigrant, Montana andA Time Outside This Time, as well asseveral other books of non-fictionand fiction. He lives in Poughkeepsie,New York, where he is Professor ofEnglish and the Helen D. LockwoodChair at Vassar College. DEAR EDITOR, both bathrooms at the back of the Air India flight from New York to Mumbai were out of order. The doors had Not Working stickers pasted over their metal handles. Identical stickers, from different days, stuck on top of earlier ones. In the op-ed that I had already begun to compose in my head, I was going to write that the bathroom doors…

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