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HEAT Series 3 Number 15

Our new issue 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 from Australia and around the world to come.

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Julius, was the name of my first love at summer camp different rules applied, he & I were allowed to hold hands people smiled indulgently, called us ‘the couple’ ‘the camp couple’ on my part, guilty as charged

Fish can all turn and flit in absolute synchrony, iron filings will point to the pole, well we’re all arranged like that in a focus on the door, something has signalled to the herd that this is what we will do and we do it, we do not move even though the rain begins again and satins darken, shirts cling and faces mercifully run rivulets.

The pitter-patter of falling water echoed in my ears, as though I could hear the squelching of soap on women’s skin. Supple flesh, water, the sweet scent of soap. When could I go swimming again? I didn’t know. I had no way of guessing, understanding, exploring, or predicting my fate. My mind swam with question marks, the answer to all of these questions the three words ‘I don’t know.’

Last year I found myself at Lingnan University in Hong Kong to speak at a conference on action cinema. What better place to reflect on the work of cinematic editing in all its forms, from the blazing guns and flying fists of blockbuster movies to the stridently flickering visual assaults of the avant-garde?

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HEAT Series 3 Number 15

New to the archive

Julius

The Marguerite Flower

Mourning a Breast

My Back Pages

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