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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 All That Wasted Heat
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'Part observation, part imaginings, this string of short vignettes walks us through an urban and psychological landscape of Australia—the isolation and loneliness of city life—that is both unsettling and serene.

'From the very first lines you’ll be transported back into your years of city living, when you lived in such painful proximity to people that you knew their daily schedules, the sound of their coughing, the sounds of their sobbing, the blur of the news on their small TVs, and the smells of their cooking. You’ll build up a picture of a man living alone in an apartment—a small balcony his window to the world—making small forays to the local café or the local bookshop. You’ll watch the crows, the basil plant that has gone to seed. You’ll worry that if you buy a typewriter it will upset the very same neighbour who has no qualms about sending her cigarette smoke drifting in your direction.

'Jonathan Hadwen paints a world full of characters and character. He seeks out the noise and the clamour of his world, and then finds the quiet that stitches it all together.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Notes

  • For Cathy, and New Farm.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Pascoe Vale, Brunswick - Coburg area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,: Vine Leaves Press , 2017 .
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      Extent: 1v.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 26 September 2017.
      ISBN: 9781925417616, 9781925417623

Works about this Work

ALL THE OLD DUDES All That Wasted Heat Carmen Leigh Keates , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Foam:e , March no. 15 2018;

— Review of All That Wasted Heat Jonathan Hadwen , 2017 selected work short story
[Review Essay] All That Wasted Heat Alison Clifton , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: StylusLit , March no. 3 2018;

'Jonathan Hadwen’s sequence of vignettes, All That Wasted Heat, is elegant and edgy, experimental and experiential, and spellbindingly beautiful. It is based in an unnamed inner-city Australian suburb replete with share houses, hostels, and homeless shelters that might be New Farm in Brisbane, or Newtown in Sydney, or Newport in Melbourne but is all of these places and nowhere at the same time. The era in which the sequence is set is a kind of timeless modernity: it could be the 1990s, or yesterday, or tomorrow.'  (Introduction)

ALL THE OLD DUDES All That Wasted Heat Carmen Leigh Keates , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Foam:e , March no. 15 2018;

— Review of All That Wasted Heat Jonathan Hadwen , 2017 selected work short story
[Review Essay] All That Wasted Heat Alison Clifton , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: StylusLit , March no. 3 2018;

'Jonathan Hadwen’s sequence of vignettes, All That Wasted Heat, is elegant and edgy, experimental and experiential, and spellbindingly beautiful. It is based in an unnamed inner-city Australian suburb replete with share houses, hostels, and homeless shelters that might be New Farm in Brisbane, or Newtown in Sydney, or Newport in Melbourne but is all of these places and nowhere at the same time. The era in which the sequence is set is a kind of timeless modernity: it could be the 1990s, or yesterday, or tomorrow.'  (Introduction)

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