HEAT 12 A Cave, A Palm Tree, A Mountain, A Source The cover of HEAT 12 features a quote from St Paul, defining the four elements essential for spiritual contemplation in desert places. The themes of contemplation, and of reduced circumstances, can be traced in many directions in this issue, which features contemporary writing from Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, the US and South America, on subjects as diverse as religion and photography, age and poverty, ruins and literary periodicals, love and cultural theory. ESSAYS Helen Garner, On Being Bad at Reading the Bible Gustaf Sobin, City of God Antigone Kefala , Journal II Abbas El-Zein, Time's Arrow Nathaniel Tarn, Small Where Space Is Not Carolyn Burke, Lee Miller in Hitler's Bathtub David Brooks, Camera Obscura Ursula Krechel, Fake Dismay Peter Marks, On the Literary Periodical

FICTION Igor Gelbak, On Summer and Winter Poverty Linden Hyatt, The Dancing Child Peter Seeberg, Three Stories Anna Couani, The Western Horizon Ch 11 POETRY Robert Gray Fay Zwicky August Kleinzahler Judith Beveridge Daisy Zamora Anthony Lawrence Javant Biarujia Gig Ryan Myron Lysenko berni m. janssen Vera Newsom B.R. Dionysius Catriona O'Reilly Peter Boyle VIEWS & REVIEWS Of Geoffrey Hartman, Dmitris Tsaloumas, Dorothy Porter, Thomas Kinsella and many more Image at right: Javant Biarujia, first ofThree Gakai