HEAT Series 2

Carpentaria imagines the cultural mind as sovereign and in control, while freely navigating through the known country of colonialism to explore the possibilities of other worlds.

A major work by anthologist and award-winning New Zealand poet, Jenny Bornholdt.

‘For Aira,’ writes Chris Andrews, ‘professionalisation is not a historical achievement to be defended, but a kind of confinement from which it is imperative to escape…’

Who am I? Where do I come from? The answers to these questions are dependant less upon a place and more upon an idea, an image, a dish, according to Allen S. Weiss.

‘Anyone reading through my archives after my death will find detailed notes on the matters alluded to somewhat coyly just now, but no one should expect to receive after my death any message from the Other Side’ writes Gerald Murnane. ‘One life as a writer will have been enough.’

My life has been in the suburbs, so it is pretty hard for me to avoid houses as subjects, writes artist Noel McKenna.

Guan Wei’s artist’s book Method for Eggplant Cultivation is accompanied here with three preparatory sketches for the work.

Eggplants first appeared in Guan Wei’s work more than a decade ago. They appeal to him for their colour, shape and sheen and because they have an element of danger. According to Guan Wei, eggplants are considered slightly poisonous in China, a liability eliminated by cooking them with garlic. 

In 2003 B. R. Dionysius received an unexpected tax debt thanks to a literary grant that didn’t factor in HECS repayments.