{"product_id":"heat-22","title":"HEAT 22","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHEAT 22 explores ideas of home. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOliver Driscoll\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e’s stories follow two pairs of friends as their bonds strengthen and weaken over the years, finding by turns recognition and estrangement in each other, and in each other’s families. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGeorge Mouratidis\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e’s three poems evoke the nostalgia and frolic of childhood backyard games with neighbours, and then the search for community in the activist circles of Melbourne in the eighties. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEila Vinwynn\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e’s essay ‘The Kids’ recalls, through vivid and opaque memories, the early ‘homes’ inhabited by her and her siblings, and passes back and forth between the times her single mother was able to keep them and the times they were obliged to stay at the notorious Fairbridge orphanage. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCeridwen Dovey\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003einvestigates the tales behind the naming of thousands of new planets being discovered – planets so remote we will never visit them, but which we draw closer to us through the names that include them in our lore and stories. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElvira Navarro\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e’s story ‘The Washing Machine’ sees a couple finding themselves increasingly vilified amongst their tenement neighbours when their washing machine inexplicably starts gushing blood with every cycle. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAdam Aitken\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e’s atmospheric sequence of prose poems ‘After Verlaine’ traces the forlorn experience of searching for home in a far-off place. And \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLucy Van\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e’s sprawling, proliferating, playful essay on housing auctions in Australia, ‘Gain Management System’, develops the thesis that the auction is Australia’s national poetry.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Guide Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53040478126355,"sku":null,"price":24.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0860\/5614\/1075\/files\/Cover_HEAT-22_LR.jpg?v=1769054058","url":"https:\/\/bookstore.artguide.com.au\/products\/heat-22","provider":"Art Guide Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}