Heat 24 Thats It For Now

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That's it - for now is the historic final issue of HEAT magazine in print form. For fourteen years and over forty issues, HEAT has been Australia's most distinguished literary journal, publishing contemporary writing in its most adventurous and innovative forms, and offering readers a range of new writing from overseas, often in translation. It is not the lack of quality writing, but a recognition that the future of the literary magazine lies with the eBook, that has caused us to take this step. HEAT goes out in print as it came in, at maximum intensity. In Music for the End of Time Andrew Riemer introduces his portrait of Gustav Mahler, on the 150th anniversary of his birth, with Bruno Walter's performance of his last symphony in Vienna in 1938, a week before Hitler's invasion of Austria. Andreas Campomar examines the image of Uruguay implicit in the writing of Eduardo Galeano. Marion Campbell responds to a performance of Samuel Beckett, while Gillian Mears responds to being photographed naked with a red balloon by Vincent Long. Justine Ettler confronts the great grand-uncle who built Wyong racecourse in 1912, and gave the family its inheritance of gambling and alcoholism. In fiction, Carrie Tiffany pursues the secret language of birds on a cereal farm in the Mallee; Nicholas Jose follows the paths of memory to the music of Gustav Mahler; Vivienne Stanton kicks against the traces of Judaism in provincial West Australia. We feature an extract from Mandy Sayer's new novel, Love in Time of Lunacy, and an interview with Greek- Romanian-Australian poet Antigone Kefala. There are art works from Stefanie Posavec, whose graphic images chart the syntax and plot structures of famous novels, and Jenny Watson's new sequence Classic Black, both in colour. Amongst the poets, poems by David Malouf, Vivian Smith, Gig Ryan, Robert Gray, Ali Alizadeh, Alan Wearne, Robert Admason, Kim Cheng Boey, Jennifer Maiden, Peter Boyle translating the Cuban poet Jose Kozer, and more...