Heat 24 just whistled in to the sydneypoetry.com mailbox. It's not a sound I'll hear again as Ivor Indyk has decided to retire the physical format (cue weeping).

As Ivor explains in his editorial:

Though there is always the possibility of a return, this will likely be the last issue of HEAT magazine in print form.

After fourteen years of continuous publication the sheer physical intractability of the magazine, and its limited circulation, weigh heavily upon its editor and publisher, especially at a time when the electronic medium beckons, with its heavenly promises of weightlessness and ubiquity.

In this issue are poems from Robert Gray, Vivian Smith, Pip Smith, Ania Walwicz, Alice Melike Ulgezer, Stuart Cooke, Adam Aitken, Peter Boyle, PiO, Jennifer Maiden, Kate Fagan, joanne burns, Lisa Gorton, Judith Beveridge, Kim Cheng Boey, Antigone Kefala, Alan Wearne, Tricia Dearborn, Ali Alizadeh and Patrick Jones.

What makes Heat hot? Stuff from the likes of these folks, that's what!

And as this is the last one to be seen alive in book form you should get hold of it now.