Journals

HEAT 17: A Dodo Idiom edited by Ivor Indyk

by Maria Takolander •

November 2008, no. 306

Giramondo, $24.95 pb, 224 pp

Journals

HEAT 17: A Dodo Idiom edited by Ivor Indyk

by Maria Takolander •

November 2008, no. 306

In an excellent essay on the poetics of art criticism in this issue, Robert Nelson writes of the nature of rapturous poetic perception: ‘Suddenly the world is larger, more meaningful … one reality gives onto another and the world is seen as an extension of the ways that you might imagine it.’ HEAT consistently provides its readers with opportunities for such aesthetic insights.

Maria Takolander

Maria Takolander is a Finnish-Australian writer, reviewer, interviewer, and independent scholar. She is the author of four books of poetry, the most recent of which, Trigger Warning (UQP 2021), won a Victorian Premier’s Literary Award. Maria was also the inaugural winner of the Australian Book Review Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Competition and is the author of The Double (and Other Stories) (Text, 2013), which was shortlisted for a Melbourne Prize for Literature. Her website is mariatakolander.com. (photo credit: David McCooey)