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HEAT 20
Series: HEAT
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HEAT 20 offers new writing from David Sornig, Eliot Weinberger, Max Easton, Mariana Enríquez (trans. Alice Whitmore), Daryl Lim Wei Jie and Dani Netherclift. By what violence, the lamb's being asked, by what love, by what momentum of force have I been delivered up to the...
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HEAT is Australia's international literary magazine. Established in 1996 by Giramondo, it publishes new and innovative poetry and prose from writers in Australia and around the world.
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HEAT 20 offers new writing from David Sornig, Eliot Weinberger, Max Easton, Mariana Enríquez (trans. Alice Whitmore), Daryl Lim Wei Jie and Dani Netherclift.
By what violence, the lamb's being asked, by what love, by what momentum of force have I been delivered up to the present? What end is there to this pain, to this thirst and hunger and fatigue? So writes David Sornig in his essay 'Os Sacrum' for HEAT 20. In this issue, big, dark, unanswerable questions are asked by each piece, and in their combined courage to ask, we are afforded a remarkable effect of hope and grim beauty.
In his essay, Sornig makes a pilgrimage across the wastelands to the west of Melbourne, following the creeks and creek beds of a landscape in the wake of a punishing industrial period while he pieces together bad dreams and memories of a lost friendship. In Eliot Weinberger's poem 'What Remains [3rd Century/21st Century]', the poet sews fragments of the Book of Giants together to address a deep and awesome Manichaean voice to our present decline. In her essay 'Preludes #2', Dani Netherclift attempts to face the inconceivable coming of her dying mother's passing in this age of denial, and turns to her ancestral archives for understanding.
Mariana Enríquez's story 'Main Building, Tenth Floor' (translated by Alice Whitmore) imagines a highly controlled world where a small flame of connection flickers between two people who have no future. Daryl Lim Wei Jie's melancholy and lascivious poems dart and duck across each page searching for something more. Max Easton's story 'Tourist Trap' follows Helen (of his novel Paradise Estate) to the squats of Milan, where, standing at the fringes of her friends' lives, she is made to see the mess and struggle for anyone who dares to grow roots.
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HEAT 20
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Book Details
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ISBN: 9781923106444
Publisher: Giramondo Publishing Co
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 15 July 2025
Country: Australia
Imprint: Giramondo Publishing Co
Illustration: Illustrations
Contributors:
- Edited by Anna Thwaites
- Contributions by Mariana Enriquez
- Contributions by David Sornig
- Contributions by Eliot Weinberger
- Contributions by Max Easton
- Contributions by Dani Netherclift
- Contributions by Daryl Lim Wei Jie
DIMENSIONS
Width: 148.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 111
About the Author
David Sornig is a Melbourne-born writer. His non-fiction and histories have appeared in Meanjin, The Saturday Paper, Griffith Review, Guardian and elsewhere. His most recent book is Blue Lake: Finding Dudley Flats and the West Melbourne Swamp, a psychogeographic excursion into the afterlife of Melbourne's lost wetlands.
Eliot Weinberger's books of literary essays and poetry include An Elemental Thing, The Ghosts of Birds, Angels & Saints, and The Life of Tu Fu, all published in the US by New Directions, and Wildlife, published by Giramondo. He lives in New York City.
Max Easton is a writer from Sydney. He is the creator of Barely Human, a zine and podcast series exploring underground music's ties to counterculture and subculture. He is the author of two novels: The Magpie Wing (longlisted for the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award) and its follow-up, Paradise Estate, published in 2023. 'Tourist Trap' contains characters from his first two novels, and acts as an accompanying tale for his forthcoming novel, Now, Autonomy.
Mariana Enrquez is an award-winning Argentine novelist and journalist, whose work has been translated into more than twenty languages. She is the author of Things We Lost in the Fire, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed which was shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize and Our Share of Night, which was awarded the prestigious Premio Herralde de Novela.
Daryl Lim Wei Jie is a poet, editor, translator from Singapore. His latest collection of poetry, Anything but Human (2021), was a finalist for the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize. He conceptualised and co-edited the anthologies Food Republic: A Singapore Literary Banquet (2020) and The Second Link: An Anthology of Malaysian and Singaporean Writing (2023). In 2023, he received the Young Artist Award, Singapore's highest honour for young art practitioners. He's currently working on Free to Play, a video gaming anthology.
Dani Netherclift is the author of Vessel: The Shape of Absent Bodies, published in 2024 in Australia, and soon to be published in Canada and the US. She lives on never-ceded Taungurung Country in the High Country Region of Victoria. She is the president and co-curator of the Mansfield Readers and Writers Festival.
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