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In Your Dreams

Šime Knežević

Šime Knežević’s first book-length poetry collection gestures towards the elusive and often fragmented reality of dreams and recollections. The poems speak of distance, dislocation and longing, evoked by the poet’s cultural ties to Croatia, the awkwardness of personal relations and the discomforts of language.

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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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The Seal Woman

Beverley Farmer

First published to acclaim in 1992, and out of print for many years, The Seal Woman is an intense and evocative portrait of a widow in mourning by one of Australia’s most important women writers. The novel explores the mind of a middle-aged Danish woman mourning the recent death of her husband at sea, in a cottage lent to her by friends in the seaside village in Victoria where she had spent her honeymoon.

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Fiction

Antigone Kefala

This commemorative edition celebrates the fiction of the late Antigone Kefala, one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Australian literature. It includes six novellas, ten short stories, and one childhood fable, and spans the many decades of her writing career.

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Šime Knežević: a note on In Your Dreams

‘What I look for in a poem is a sense of change, a startling gesture, a small mercy, a consolation, something negotiable. I think this is reflected too in the range of formal approaches with riffs, vignettes, suggestions, stock-taking and direct address. I want a poem to be more than a remnant or souvenir of an experience, but itself be an experience for the reader.’

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A poem from In Your Dreams by Šime Knežević

‘And so was the brief: fetch the ‘pinch-bar’. / I peered into the small shed, / a corrugated cave of tools and such, / but I didn’t know what a pinch-bar was. / Back to him, I asked what it looked like, / he scolded: pinch-bar! pinch-bar!’

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HEAT

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HEAT Series 3 Number 17 features writing by Indigo Bailey, Alice Allan, Louise Carter, Noëlle Janaczewska, Vidyan Ravinthiran, and Eirill Alvilde Falck. Subscribe to HEAT now to receive Number 17 as your first issue, with more adventurous literary writing and art from Australia and around the world to come.

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Authors

π.O.

Π.O. is a legendary figure in the Australian poetry scene, the chronicler of Melbourne and its culture and migrations, and an anarchist who has worked as a draughtsman for forty years to support his art. 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 books are HEIDE and 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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