HEAT Series 3 Number 7

Strangers, sleepwalkers, chaos agents, vagrants, inventors and activists populate the first HEAT of 2023. Eda Gunaydin opens the issue with a satirical short story about misguided intentions. Gareth Morgan’s poems reveal glimpses of city life in Melbourne and on Staten Island. In two very short stories, Zhu Yue plays tricks with literary occidentalism. Pi.O. shares a sequence of poems that explore love, anarchy and the spirit of performance. Aleksandra Lun, who once worked in a casino, invokes the roulette wheel in an essay on literary transnationalism. Writing from Paris, Noémi Lefebvre imagines a conversation with Jacques Lacan over toast and coffee. And in closing, Andriy Lyubka sends a clear-eyed dispatch from Ukraine.

Contents

Eda Gunaydin Fuck Up prose
Gareth Morgan Five Poems poetry
Zhu Yue (trans. Jianan Qian and Alyssia Asquith) Two Stories prose
Aleksandra Lun (trans. Elizabeth Bryer) Antimatter prose
Pi.O. Four Poems poetry
Noémi Lefebvre (trans. Sophie Lewis) Les Non-Dupes Errent And Other Ghosts prose
Andriy Lyubka (trans. Yulia Lyubka and Kate Tsurkan) Roasted Uganda prose

Frontispiece by Anna Higgins

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The cat surged down with no preamble, startling Mooks, whose set-up tumbled to the ground. Robertson leant down and snatched up the thing before it could go for the filters, and Mitch watched as a single ginger cat hair descended with cosmic slowness into the open tub of hummus.

Of all the things I took to the front for Ukrainian soldiers, the most important was a kilogram of freshly roasted coffee from a hipster coffee house in the centre of Uzhhorod.

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