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The Prodigal

The Prodigal

Suneeta Peres da Costa

In her debut poetry book, the acclaimed author of Saudade unravels myths of homecoming and return, belonging and displacement, patrimony and sovereignty. Marked by its attention to the body, its strengths and infirmities, The Prodigal explores the experience of suffering through earthly and human ecologies and primordial connections.

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Chinese Postman

Chinese Postman

Brian Castro

In the character of Abraham Quin – a thrice-divorced migrant and writer, and a one-time postman and professor living alone in the Adelaide Hills – one of Australia’s most important novelists writes about the experience of old age. As Quin becomes increasingly engaged in an epistolary correspondence with a woman seeking refuge from the war in Ukraine, he offers up memories and anxieties, obsessions and opinions, and his thoughts on solitude, writing, friendship and time.

Fiction
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Alexis Wright

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Anna Thwaites is the new editor of HEAT magazine

‘HEAT is a visionary magazine conceived in anger and pursued with integrity. The wealth of talent and skill, the variety and challenge of the writing that has been published within its pages across the three series has so often reinvigorated my belief in what it is possible for a literary magazine – Australian and international – to be.’

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A poem from The Prodigal by Suneeta Peres da Costa

‘Reeds stuck to her unwashed hair / and her cheek was bruised from sleeping / on the long string of tulasī beads she’d / bought at a temple stall in Tiruchirappalli. / Unbeknown to her they would tattoo / her skin in the night, writing their faint, / inscrutable calligraphy.’

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HEAT Series 3 Number 16 features writing by Alexis Wright, Wen-Juenn Lee, Nicholas Jose, Edina Szvoren (trans. Erika Mihálycsa with Peter Sherwood), Chris Ames, and Tom Cho. Subscribe to HEAT now to receive Number 16 as your first issue, with more adventurous literary writing and art from Australia and around the world to come.

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π.O.

Π.O. is a legendary figure in the Australian poetry scene, the chronicler of Melbourne and its culture and migrations, and a highly disciplined 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. His latest book is The Tour.

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Amy Crutchfield

Amy Crutchfield studied Classics and Law at the University of Melbourne. Her poetry has been published in Australia, the UK and Ireland. She has worked as a teacher and a lawyer. The Cyprian is her first book.

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