{"title":"Series: HEAT","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"heat-16-9781922725158","title":"HEAT 16","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur issue opens with \u003cem\u003eDream Geographies\u003c\/em\u003e, an important essay by Alexis Wright that covers the many aspects of writing her most recent novel \u003cem\u003ePraiseworthy\u003c\/em\u003e. In her expressive, allegorical style, Wright discusses the importance of writing on a large scale in an imperilled world, the state of Aboriginal self-determination, and the value in thinking off-key to conjure humour. She also describes the collection of notes (\u003cem\u003emany scribbled quickly to catch the flow of thoughts\u003c\/em\u003e) and treasured objects that helped fire her vision of the book (\u003cem\u003erandom gifts from a windfall: a feather from the local birds, or a perfect bird's nest that had floated down from the highest tree in a night storm, and fallen undamaged into the garden\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe pleasures of words and wordplay are threaded throughout the issue. Fleeting sights and sounds are objects of desire in the poetry of Wen-Juenn Lee, who collects scraps of archival information, notes on domestic interiors, and observations on light: \u003ci\u003eWooden floors \/ blue kitchen \/ yellow walls \/ this is how light encounters me \/ unadorned.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn a short story by the renowned Hungarian writer Edina Szvoren (translated by Erika Mihlycsa with Peter Sherwood), a neurotic and deadpan narrator incapable of wonderment is resigned to playing the part of one who wonders. In \u003cem\u003eEverything Solid is Vibrating in Place\u003c\/em\u003e by Chris Ames, a character by the same name is building a house for his family, and also for everyone in the world named Chris.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"I could run a hundred yards and I could swim. That was all,\" recalls Nicholas Jose as he examines the qualities of monotony through the lens of his boyhood in 1960s Adelaide. \u003ci\u003eBeing hopeless at sport, I needed other skills to survive... I learnt the lesson that I now recognise as wuwei in Chinese, the way of least resistance.\u003c\/i\u003e Jose later observes in his elegant, digressive essay: \u003ci\u003eBeneath the surface flicker of change, monotony can still be a mirror, hard and unchanging, no matter who might be watching from out at sea—a cargo ship, an enemy submarine, a boatload of refugees.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd in \u003cem\u003eThe Whole Cannot Be Understood Without Reference to its Holes\u003c\/em\u003e, by Tom Cho, a young scholar imagines a lover appearing in his studio and, reflecting on the spaces that are created and left behind by his presence, comes up with the term 'hole-ism'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47463100547308,"sku":"9781922725158","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781922725158-heat-16.jpg?v=1775028706"},{"product_id":"heat-17-9781922725165","title":"HEAT 17","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe final issue of 2024, \u003ci\u003eHEAT 17\u003c\/i\u003e offers writing from Indigo Bailey, Alice Allan, Louise Carter, Noelle Janaczewska, Vidyan Ravinthiran, Ursula Robinson-Shaw, and Eirill Alvilde Falck.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFew noticed that I was gone. Those who did registered a subtle disequilibrium in the texture of the world, as if reality had burst a single pixel...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSo writes Indigo Bailey in 'Les Figurants', a cinematic short story that takes us into the surreal world of a figurant, as a film extra is known in French, which was also slang for a cadaver that nobody wanted to claim.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDialogues of different kinds resonate throughout the issue. Alice Allan and Louise Carter converse across poems, writing to each other about friendships, heartbreak, literary gossip, and world events. Noelle Janaczewska contributes an excerpt from a new monologue, or to use her term, a performance essay, which starts with the speaker's love for the forgotten queer writer Amy Levy, whose life and writing she discovers in the library archives, and interweaves segments of Levy's biography with her own to offer a rich reflection on love and censorship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGods, ancient neighbours, and colonial subjects are figures in Vidyan Ravinthiran's poems, which criss-cross histories both personal and geographical. 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After more than a decade on ice, this new series has raised the bar once again. Elegantly designed and thoughtfully curated, and including work from canonical Australian writers to emerging voices to authors in translation, the journal reminds us how crucial such organs are to the vigour and health of our literary ecosystem.' — Geordie Williamson, \u003ci\u003eThe Saturday Paper's\u003c\/i\u003e 'Best of 2022'\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'So slender and elegant, nothing wasted, nothing grandiose and beautiful work.' — Helen Garner\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eHEAT\u003c\/i\u003e magazine was a trailblazer from the day it was launched... 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