Table of contents for HEAT Series 3 Number 18 in HEAT

Untitled (Estuary snorkel), 2005 Ink on paper 35 × 28 cm Courtesy Olsen Gallery, Sydney Nicholas Harding (1956–2022) was a British-Australian artist known for his large-scale painted portraits and pen and ink drawings. Untitled (Estuary snorkel) featured in the recent exhibition Beach Life: Works on Paper, which focused on the previously unseen studies for his paintings, taken from his years spent drawing on the beaches of east coast Australia. Through the eyes of Harding, beachgoers come to life in their most candid forms. ‘He strove to portray others authentically but his objectivity was tempered with compassion for others caught up in human existence and trying to work it out… His subjects were often unaware of his observation, but he tried to draw them in good faith, with integrity.’ – Sarah…

π.O. is a legendary figure in the Australian poetry scene, the chronicler of Melbourne and its culture and migrations, and an anarchist. He is the publisher of Unusual Work by Collective Effort Press, a long-time magazine editor, a pioneer of performance poetry in Australia, and the author of many collections, including Heide, which was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry and received the Judith Wright Calanthe Award. In 2024 he received the Patrick White Award. Thomas Ritchie Thomas Ritchie [ofFrankston] was charged with crueltyand ill treating a horse; the property of IsaacStephens of Fitzroy. The Bible mentionsa red horse, and a red heifer. The said horse, wasbleeding all over, and had a large rawwound on its back, and was covered withcuts and spur marks. If you seek…

Debbie Lim’s poems have appeared regularly in the Best Australian Poems series and Contemporary Asian Australian Poets, among numerous other anthologies and journals. She received the 2022 Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the 2022 Peter Porter Poetry Prize. Her chapbook Beastly Eye was published by Vagabond Press. A full-length collection, Bathypelagia, will be published in 2025. Sister Cumulus She arrives on a roll call of winds,talks in billows of ever-drifting advice.Precipitous, declares: You are the stoneof the family as she ripples the room:now drizzle, now squall, scatteringa trail of ice crystals over the carpet, leavingdamp patches on the rug. But when skiesblow clear, she floats above the silland grades emotions by altitude:All things, she says, can be understoodaccording to their height above sea level.A halo-effect rises…

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When HEAT announced its return from a ten-year hiatus in 2021, there was little in Australian literature to match its literary aspirations and international character. Under the editorship of Alexandra Christie, it proved to be in its spirit every part the same project that founding editor Ivor Indyk had conceived it to be in 1996, ferociously committed to publishing writing that ‘gives full rein to the author’s voice’. As a reader, I celebrated. In my fifteen years in publishing I have seen so many unquestioned compromises at the expense of good writing – compromises about which works are published, compromises about the editing and thinking and rewriting time afforded work to make it its truest, most realised version – and so little faith in readers. Indyk’s furious first editorial described…

Fiona Kelly McGregor is a novelist, essayist and art critic who has published eight books, most recently historical crime novel Iris and essay collection Buried Not Dead. Forthcoming is The Trap, due in late 2025. MY NAME IS FIONA KELLY MCGREGOR; it is an amendment. I was baptised Fiona Mary Christine in accordance with Catholic tradition. As the eighth child, I had a better chance of getting a fresh name, the list of family members to honour and replicate having been exhausted. My parents fought over what my Christian name was to be. My mother wanted to call me Lily, my father Fiona. My father won. The name I was schooled under – Fiona McGregor – was as Scottish as tartan but we weren’t very Scottish at all. In that…

Hannah Fink is an art historian and editor. She is the author of Strange Things: Bronwyn Oliver (Piper Press, 2017). She was editor of Art and Australia and a founding editor of ArtAsiaPacific. Her book on the artist Rosalie Gascoigne and the astronomer Ben Gascoigne will be published by Melbourne University Press in 2026. The exhibition Lucian Freud: New Perspectives was shown at the National Gallery, London, 1 October 2022 to 22 January 2023 and at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, 14 February to 18 June 2023. THE UNPROMISINGLY TITLED Lucian Freud: New Perspectives turned out to be an exemplary exhibition, revelatory even. There were not too many paintings; themes were loose, to be obeyed or ignored; wall text was pertinent, and occasional; it was hung chronologically, always a good…

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.…

Lena Andersson is a novelist and an occasional columnist for Svenska Dagbladet, where she writes sharp analysis of contemporary ideas and phenomena. Her novel Wilful Disregard won Sweden’s prestigious August Prize. Sarah Death, who lives and works in Kent, England, has translated books from a wide variety of genres and periods, including works by Nobel laureate Selma Lagerlöf and the collected letters of Finland-Swedish writer, artist and Moomin creator Tove Jansson. Her English translation of Lena Andersson’s novel Wilful Disregard was published in 2015. AT ONE OF THE PLAGES IN THE RESORT OF DEAUVILLE there was a tongue of concrete sticking out; once conceived as a breakwater, now left behind as an appendix in the landscape. And that was what the locals called it, too, the Appendix; over time it…

Leah Muddle is a poet, visual artist and retail worker. Recent works have been exhibited by Alta Forma, and published by Australian Poetry Journal, Cordite Poetry Review and sick leave. The daughter or the frogmouth Hot streak or divinity?Roberto Rossellini must clap or clasp hands when, havingbroughtprobably then the most famous actress in the worldto the island of Stromboli, its volcano produces a dramaticeruption —how? Orwho? Is the director, in fact,our god … He (R. R.) would say no or assolutamente no He is (where?)off to one side, watching (as we will), the rocks flying, thevillagers hurriedly filing down from their houses to shorelineto boat to sea to safety to turn back and watch (as we will) theradiant, jumbling spill - - - and to sing - - - a…

Fiction 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 Shaun Prescott The Town Jon Fosse Septology (trans. Damion Searls) Non-fiction Nikos Papastergiadis John Berger and Me Bonny Cassidy Monument Imants Tillers Credo 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 Drama…