Table of contents for HEAT Series 3 Number 9 in HEAT

Echo XI 2022 xerograph 51 × 41 cm (framed) courtesy of the artist and Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney Sarah Mosca’s suite of works titled Echo I – XII includes twelve xerograph reproductions, each fixed on the gesture of women’s hands captured in a range of actions to emphasise the body language of labour. Her xerographs (Greek for ‘dry writing’) are produced without the use of liquid chemicals, bringing a certain texture to the historical records she recontextualises. She says of the works: ‘Hand gestures are a form of non-verbal, nuanced language. We notice people’s hands and read them based on an applied set of codes… Selected from a library of open-source photographs, each of my re-compositions focus only on hands in action (or inaction); gestures of balancing, mending, desire, idleness…these…

Bonny Cassidy is the author of three collections of poetry and co-editor of the anthology Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry. Her debut collection, Certain Fathoms, was shortlisted for the 2012 Western Australian Premier’s Poetry Award, and Chatelaine was shortlisted for the 2018 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry and the 2018 Queensland Literary Award for Poetry. Bonny teaches Creative Writing at RMIT University and lives in the bush on Dja Dja Wurrung Country, Central Victoria. Her first book of prose, Monument, will be published later this year. He goes he goes he goes he just goes The evening nurse calls to say he’s had a fall. That phrase – the traditional signpost of the sudden demise. I was out with Mum when the call came. Mum, who had that very afternoon…

Fiction Sanya Rushdi Hospital 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 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 Poetry Grace Yee Chinese Fish 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 Lingo Tracy Ryan Rose Interior…

Alena Lodkina is a Russian-born Australian filmmaker. She directed and co-wrote her first feature film Strange Colours (2017), which debuted at Venice Film Festival. Petrol (2022), her second feature film as writer and director, premiered at Locarno Film Festival and later screened at the 52nd edition of New Directors/New Films presented by the Museum of Modern Art and Film at Lincoln Centre in New York. She has made fiction and documentary short films, and has written about film. These two stories, first drafted in 2015, explore themes that were later developed in Petrol. A Beautiful Girl, A Beautiful Dress I spent a few years working in cafés after graduating from art school. I didn’t see what else I could do. The work kept me moving, I was fed, had nice…

Ender Başkan is a poet, bookseller and co-founder of Vre Books. He is the author of A Portrait of Alice as a Young Man. In 2021, he won the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize. funk n wagnalls, collect the set our neighbours are both mathematiciansthey have two girls at schoolthe younger girl is about 10walks around churning a rubiks cubecan solve it pretty quickher dad is proud but saysshes just using a brute force algorithmsoon shell be ready for more a sophisticated oneitll be much fasterdamn I thinkmaybe all i have is brute forcei remember hitting that wall in mathsmaybe later than mostbut hitting it hard stilland in all these other fields of life tooat least i read a lot as a kidnot so much a canonbut anything with words…

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Marianne Boruch is an American poet and essayist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, London Review of Books, Axon and elsewhere. Her eleventh collection, Bestiary Dark, resulted from her observations of Australian wildlife while a 2019 Fulbright Scholar hosted by International Poetry Studies Institute at the University of Canberra. Among her honours are the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for The Book of Hours, as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Rockefeller’s Bellagio Centre, MacDowell, Yaddo, The American Academy in Rome, and Denali and Isle Royale national parks. Masterclass for Henry Kramer Two hours or so,his jacket too small,a piano nerdhe says of himself.Is he amusedby his own caption?Because the mask,the covid mask…I’m not really the secretI look to be either.Behind mine, you can’t tellmy mouth mightbe ready…

Antigone Kefala (1931–2022) wrote four works of fiction, The First Journey, The Island, Alexia and Summer Visit, and five poetry collections, The Alien, Thirsty Weather, European Notebook, Absence: New and Selected Poems, and Fragments, which won the 2017 Judith Wright Calanthe Award and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry. Her collections of journals are Sydney Journals and Late Journals. She received the Patrick White Literary Award in 2022. This work is a selection of journal entries written prior to Antigone’s death last December. Wednesday, 5 January 2022 A new year. Let’s hope for more positive news – not evident in the number of people infected. Humid and warm. Overcast. The city has remained empty for such a long time now…only the cars on the bridge moving.…

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