CONTRAPPASSO is an independent biannual magazine of international writing published in Sydney, Australia. Issue 4 is our most international to date, featuring writing from Mexico, China, Russia, Italy, the UK, Ireland, New Zealand, the USA, and Australia. Highlights include the Crate-Diggers' Symposium - in-depth interviews with America's leading rare music anthologists - and a series of tributes to the late Seamus Heaney. We have a newly translated short story by the Mexican writer Juan Villoro and new fiction by Clive Sinclair and Elisabeth Murray; with poetry by David Howard, Hong Ying, John Leonard, Tegan Jane Schetrumpf, Joe Dolce, Paolo Fabrizio Iacuzzi, Mira Peck, Chris Oakey, Mikhail Yeryomin, Morris Lurie, Rogelio Guedea, Erin Martine Sessions, Floyd Salas, Phillip A. Ellis, Richard Tipping, and Todd Turner.