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HEAT 1. Fire & Shadow
HEAT

254 pages
Paperback, 22.3 x 17 cm
Published 2001
ISBN 957831110
ISSN 1326-1460

Editor

Ivor Indyk

Designer

Harry Williamson

HEAT 1. Fire & Shadow

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Contents

Prose

Beverley Farmer – Mouths of Gold
Gustaf Sobin – Basso Continuo
Alexis Wright – A Kind People
Eva Sallis – The Kangaroo
Louis Nowra – Chihuahuas, Women and Me
Suneeta Peres da Costa – Dreamless
Kerryn Goldsworthy – Almost an Island
David Malouf – The South
Peter Holbrook – Poetry and Sadness
John Dale – On Smoking
Marion Campbell – Goodness Itself
Dorothy Johnston – A Script with No Words
Alexandra Pitsis – The Terrain of his Eternal Amnesia

Literary Engagements

Gig Ryan – On Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Eden Lidelow – An Interview with Susan Sontag
Christopher Pollnitz – Criticism, Biography and Les Murray
Fay Zwicky – On Rosemary Dobson
Andrew Dowling – On Peter Carey

Poetry

Robert Gray, Antigone Kefala, Judith Beveridge, Anthony Lawrence, John Foulcher, Peter Boyle, Kate Camp, Michael Farrell, Emma Lew, Peter Rose

Art

Noel McKenna – Dog Posters
Jacqueline Rose – Josephine’s Song

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The South

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A Script With No Words

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Several years ago, a group of Canberra sex-workers applied to the Australia Council and were granted $6,280 to write a film script. The organization WISE (Workers In Sex Employment) was involved. A local writer ran some workshops, characters were developed, a plot outlined. But the project caused a stir, and resulted in a good deal of bad publicity, most of which used the argument that funding prostitutes to write a film script was a waste of public money.
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Dreamless

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My whole life, I had woken in earnest and with an uncanny conceit about my place in the world. In the world, if people were distinguished by their night and morning sensibilities, I would be a ‘morning person’, by which I mean that I rarely hesitated about the importance of getting out of bed. 
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