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Mourning a Breast

Mourning a Breast

Xi Xi

In 1989, the Hong Kong cult classic writer Xi Xi was diagnosed with breast cancer. Mourning a Breast, published two and a half years later, is a disarmingly honest and deeply personal account of the author’s experience of a mastectomy and of her subsequent recovery.

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Tintinnabulum

Tintinnabulum

Judith Beveridge

Tintinnabulum is Judith Beveridge’s much-anticipated new collection of poems, and her first since the prize-winning Sun Music in 2018. Its focus is on animals, people, and places, with multiplicity everywhere, and an overall feeling of the joy and richness of language.

Poetry
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HEAT Series 3 Number 15 features writing by Glenn Bech (trans. Hazel Evans), Chris Fleming, Harriet Armstrong, Isabella Trimboli, Hasib Hourani, and Michal Tallo. Subscribe to HEAT now to receive Number 15 as your first issue, with more adventurous literary writing and art from Australia and around the world to come.

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Grace Yee

Grace Yee lives in Melbourne, on Wurundjeri land. Her poetry has been widely published and anthologised across Australia and internationally. Her debut book Chinese Fish won the 2024 Victorian Prize for Literature and the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry.

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Jon Fosse

Jon Fosse is the recipient of countless prestigious prizes, both in his native Norway and abroad, including the Nobel Prize in Literature. Since his 1983 fiction debut, Fosse has written prose, poetry, essays, short stories, children’s books, and over forty plays, with more than a thousand productions performed and translations into fifty languages.

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