HEAT Series 3 Number 5
By (Author) Alexandra Christie
3.5
Giramondo Publishing Co
Giramondo Publishing Co
1st October 2022
Australia
Paperback
96
Width 148mm, Height 210mm
The appeal of the random, the accidental, the chance, the unpredictable, except in the case of breakfast, is surely essential and needed for a life to be alive. Patterns can be found later.
So writes Stephanie Radok in the new issue of HEAT, in an essay about gardening, art making and the poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Chance encounters also occur in our pages: between Nelle Janaczewskas dramatic appreciation of cheese and art; Jenny Erpenbeck on things that disappear; two deceptively simple stories about friendship by Oliver Driscoll; Mary Jean Chans lucid verses of self-expression; an uncanny story by Katharina Volckmer; and Kate Middletons biting poems about watching television.
Across poetry and prose, the seven contributors to HEAT Series 3 Number 5 share unique, often dreamlike, perspectives on appetites, art and nature.