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HEAT 18
Series: HEAT
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HEAT 18 offers writing from Lena Andersson (translated by Sarah Death), .O., Fiona Kelly McGregor, Leah Muddle, Debbie Lim, and Hannah Fink. Our first issue of 2025 starts with 'Annie', a story translated by Sarah Death from Swedish novelist Lena Andersson, whose fiction contains some of...
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Australia's international literary magazine, publishing new and innovative poetry and prose from writers in Australia and around the world. The current series launches a new cover design in 2025 with new editor Anna Thwaites.
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HEAT 18 offers writing from Lena Andersson (translated by Sarah Death), .O., Fiona Kelly McGregor, Leah Muddle, Debbie Lim, and Hannah Fink.
Our first issue of 2025 starts with 'Annie', a story translated by Sarah Death from Swedish novelist Lena Andersson, whose fiction contains some of the clearest, most truthful, and cutting, hilarious and crushing representations of the minutiae of human relations I have read.
It then turns to .O., whose poem-portraits of Fitzroy pulverise the heart by seeing too deeply and with too much experience.
Fiona Kelly McGregor's virtuoso essay 'What's in a Name?' looks at the violence and freedom of given names and chosen names by transcribing a chorus of personal name-stories from all corners of the world.
Leah Muddle's buoyant 'Volcane Sequence' of poems sets the heroine of Roberto Rossellini's Stromboli against the artist's eternal battle with herself. We are horrified by, and throw ourselves at, a volcano who will only spout when it wants.
Debbie Lim's weather poems likewise draw out the mist and rain and thunderous turmoil in our hermetic interiors.
Finally, in 'Charismatic', Hannah Fink takes us through Lucian Freud's art and life to reveal endless layers in both the paintings and the man.
When the new third series of HEAT was launched in physical form at the start of 2022, the world was just emerging from the worst of the pandemic, and our emphasis was on sending copies of HEAT directly into people's homes.
The accompanying design was deliberately minimal, in acknowledgement of readers who already had some familiarity with the magazine and its reputation. The cover of this issue, also designed by Jenny Grigg, is for a more open world, where a new reader can come across it on a shelf in a bookshop or lying on an armchair in the home of a friend.
Our hope is that you will be welcomed in by its generous title and the writers' own words, and find what you've been looking for inside: writing that appeals to our interest in innovative and adventurous forms, and unfamiliar subjects, writing that asks something of us, gives something to us, and pushes us further into life.
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HEAT 18
HEAT 18 offers writing from Lena Andersson (translated by Sarah Death), .O., Fiona Kelly McGregor, Leah Muddle, Debbie Lim, and Hannah Fink. Our first issue of 2025 starts with 'Annie', a story translated by Sarah Death from Swedish novelist Lena Andersson, whose fiction contains some of the clearest, most truthful, and cutting, hilarious and crushing representations of the minutiae of...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781922725172
Publisher: Giramondo Publishing Co
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 15 March 2025
Country: Australia
Imprint: Giramondo Publishing Co
Illustration: Illustrations
Contributors:
- Edited by Anna Thwaites
- Contributions by Fiona Kelly McGregor
- Contributions by .O.
- Contributions by Hannah Fink
- Contributions by Leah Muddle
- Contributions by Debbie Lim
- Contributions by Lena Andersson
- Contributions by Sarah Death
DIMENSIONS
Width: 148.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 92
About the Author
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.
.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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Lagerlf and the collected letters of Finland-Swedish writer, artist and Moomin creator Tove Jansson.
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