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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.

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rock flight

rock flight

Hasib Hourani

This epic poem and debut work follows a personal and historical narrative to compose an understated yet powerful allegory of Palestine’s occupation. It depicts a restlessness brought about by dispossession, and a determination to find significance in fleeting objects and fragments. ‘Here is a poetry of passion; a poetry of necessity; a poetry of survival, and a poetry-triumphant’ (Maxine Beneba Clarke).

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Alexis Wright

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Brian Castro: a note on Chinese Postman

‘My father was a great letter-writer. He wrote letters to the editors of newspapers, to lovers, to business clients, to President Jimmy Carter. Some of them replied. Some replied through their offices or agencies. He became a collector of stamps and of women; all in the most epistolary fashion; all stylishly-blamelessly and in longhand.’

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An excerpt from Brian Castro’s Chinese Postman

‘That lone walker, yes, that stooping figure over there, that bitter and twisted man who only straightens up to look at treetops and sees nothing but fragments – ruins are his best friends. He sees only broken columns lying horizontally in the grass, symbols of fallen ambition. He does not know many people now, or only by sight.’

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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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Ali Cobby Eckermann

Ali Cobby Eckermann’s first collections of poetry little bit long time and Kami (2010) both quickly sold out their first print runs. Her second verse novel Ruby Moonlight won the 2013 NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry and Book of the Year Award. In 2017, Ali won the Windham-Campbell prize.

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