Table of contents for HEAT Series 3 Number 19 in HEAT

Diagram for caught moth wings 201445 × 35 cmarchival ink on 640 gsm FabrianoArtistico paperCourtesy of the artist and DarrenKnight Gallery, SydneyPhotography by Mark Ashkanasy Louise Weaver’s practice is influenced by the dynamics and fragility of the natural world, as well as environmental, social and feminist themes. Through her orchestration of colour, texture and structure she investigates the interplay of order and coincidence, revealing a complex interconnected universe of fragile beauty that is both real and imagined.…

Michael Farrell’s first book of fiction, The Victoria Principle, is published concurrently with these poems in HEAT. Farrell’s previously published poetry books include a raiders guide; open sesame, shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry; Cocky’s Joy, shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry; I Love Poetry, which won the Queensland Literary Award for Poetry and was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Award; Family Trees; and Googlecholia, longlisted for the ALS Gold Medal. Born in the border, hill, or platypus town of Bombala, NSW, Michael has lived in Melbourne (currently Carlton) since 1990. Haberdashery Heard about Billie Eilish records, didn’t Ashbery see her, entered Roussel’s yard. And Bardem, evidently, repeated discussion, Ashbery, supposedly, had every, roundtable, you heard. Between elms, ravens dashed, after squirrels, hardly…

Reyumeh Ejue is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His stories have been published in Transition Magazine, The Hudson Review (where he won a fiction prize), swamp pink, and Subtropics Literary Journal. He was also a finalist for the 2025 Witness Literary Magazine Awards. I SAT WATCHING HOVA ACROSS THE TABLE FROM ME in the fast food restaurant Pepperoni, which was quite dead since a lot of years had passed since it first opened, and everyone knows that fast food restaurants in Calabar are only hot within eight months of their premiere, and this one has been running for ten years now, which is an achievement in itself since the average lifespan of a fast food restaurant in Calabar is twenty-eight months, which is how long it takes for…

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. Excerpt on p. 15 is from Midwinter Day, copyright © 1982 by Bernadette Mayer. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. Excerpt on p. 17 is from ‘The Great Outdoors’, from WORKS AND DAYS, copyright © 2016 by Bernadette Mayer. Reprinted by permission of…

Miro Bilbrough is a filmmaker, writer and poet whose memoir of a counter-culture New Zealand adolescence, In the Time of the Manaroans was shortlisted for the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction 2021. She wrote and directed the feature films Being Venice (2012) and Floodhouse (2004), an adaptation of Herman Melville’s Bartleby (2001), and the ciné-poem Urn (1995). She has a Doctorate of Creative Arts from the Writing and Society Research Centre, WSU, and makes her living as a script editor and a teacher of screenwriting. Man Flicking Free of Feet HE WAS AT THE AGE WHEN THE WORLD of physical objects begins its turn against one. Younger than you might think. As we approached the five ways on the outskirts of Nelson in our hot metal box, I could see…

Miriam Webster writes in and around Naarm. In 2022 she was a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow and her writing has been listed in various prizes, including Overland’s Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize, the KYD Non-Fiction Prize and the Calibre Essay Prize. Her first book, a collection of short stories, is forthcoming with Aniko Press. ONE MORNING AFTER A BIG ARGUMENT with Elena I was kneeling with my head between her legs and she was very silent, hardly breathing, when apropos of nothing she mentioned we should take a drive outside the city in search of a place to swim. It was high summer; already I could hear the wind and feel a broad, dull heat beating its chant against the bedroom blind, and the thought of finding a secluded…

Fiction Antigone Kefala Fiction Michael Farrell The Victoria Principle Beverley Farmer The Seal Woman Brian Castro Chinese Postman Xi Xi Mourning a Breast (trans. Jennifer Feeley) Beverley Farmer Alone Anne de Marcken It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over Jonathan Buckley Tell Max Easton Paradise Estate Nicholas Jose The Idealist Pip Adam Audition Sanya Rushdi Hospital Alexis Wright Praiseworthy Non-fiction Nikos Papastergiadis John Berger and Me Bonny Cassidy Monument Imants Tillers Credo Poetry Antigone Kefala Poetry Šime Knežević In Your Dreams Suneeta Peres da Costa The Prodigal Hasib Hourani rock flight Judith Beveridge Tintinnabulum Kate Fagan Song in the Grass Manisha Anjali Naag Mountain Kate Middleton Television Amy Crutchfield The Cyprian Louise Carter Golden Repair π.O. The Tour Luke Beesley In the Photograph Grace Yee Chinese Fish Autumn Royal The…

Chris Andrews lives on unceded Gadigal-Wangal land. His most recent poetry collection is The Oblong Plot. His most recent translations are of Liliana Colanzi’s You Glow in the Dark and Ágota Kristóf’s I Don’t Care. Four Phones It was council mowing day. I was on the porch,screened by leaves. The avant-garde of edgers had gone.One foot on the running board, late, María criedacross the street: – Everyone all right? The mowers broke for lunch. One phone supplied a quiz.Another showed the direction of the Kaaba.A striped marsh frog bolted in time. A driver sangDELIV E R Y and snapped the parcel. A woman stopped under the avocado treewith her phone on speaker. A watery perfumemet a scent of unforgiving toast. A phalanxof leaf blowers rounded the corner. I thought about…

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