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The Seal Woman

Beverley Farmer

First published to acclaim in 1992, now released in a new edition after years out of print, The Seal Woman is an intense and evocative portrait of a woman mourning the recent death of her husband at sea. It is written by one of Australia’s most important writers, Beverley Farmer (1941–2018).

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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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Poetry

Antigone Kefala

A commemorative edition that brings together all the published poems of the late Antigone Kefala, one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Australian literature. It includes all the poems in Kefala’s six previous poetry books, published over fifty years, including the award-winning Fragments.

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Fiction

Antigone Kefala

A commemorative edition that celebrates the fiction of the late Antigone Kefala. It includes six novellas, ten short stories, and one childhood fable, and spans the many decades of her writing career.

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An excerpt from Beverley Farmer’s The Seal Woman

‘Over the whole shore, layer on layer of white veiling lifts and bells, flattens and hangs drifting. The boulders are great animals, diminishing slowly, torpid, already porous on the grey sand where soon not even bones will be left.’

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HEAT

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HEAT Series 3 Number 18 features writing by Lena Andersson (trans. Sarah Death), π.O., Fiona Kelly McGregor, Leah Muddle, Debbie Lim, and Hannah Fink. Subscribe now to receive Number 18 as your first issue, and join us to celebrate another year of HEAT on Saturday 29 March at Prop Gallery in Sydney.

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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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