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Sports! They’re fun to play, and if you don’t want to play, they’re fun to watch. But what can those of us do who want neither to play nor watch them?
Voiceworks #138, ‘Jock’ proposes an answer: we can read about them! Yes, it took us 138 issues, but Australia’s premier youth lit mag has officially invented the hottest new way to have fun with sports.
Helena Tang pictures the jock as a kind of poet, writing in a ‘chain-link grammar’; ruth j hiree, Nara Sapon and Connor Chen watch bodies straining in motion; Nimrada Silva and Claudia Hunt write moving stories about schoolkids who seek, in very different ways, to transcend their daily lives through games.
Theresa Ho and Ella Rule cast a wry, inquiring eye upon a curious landmark in their city—Lake Burley Griffin, Boronia Mall; Xylia Yang writes into the ‘echoing stillness’ that comes after extinction; Isabella Pex paints a grimly funny poetic portrait of Lake Macquarie and its nearby factories; Kaz Zouain builds a house in the sky.
In our interviews section, Ellen van Neerven chats to Maya Crombie about the links between sport and literature, while Dominic Symes and Adela May Teubner pay loving tribute to Adelaide’s poetry scene, before considering the age-old question: To move or not to move (to Melbourne)?
All that, along with illustrations by Alexander Poljansek and cover art by Ella Rizzi, laid out by our wonderful new designer, Claire Summerville—here to ensure that Voiceworks stays the best-dressed lit mag in town.
Now—on your marks; get set; read!
Sports! They’re fun to play, and if you don’t want to play, they’re fun to watch. But what can those of us do who want neither to play nor watch them?
Voiceworks #138, ‘Jock’ proposes an answer: we can read about them! Yes, it took us 138 issues, but Australia’s premier youth lit mag has officially invented the hottest new way to have fun with sports.
Helena Tang pictures the jock as a kind of poet, writing in a ‘chain-link grammar’; ruth j hiree, Nara Sapon and Connor Chen watch bodies straining in motion; Nimrada Silva and Claudia Hunt write moving stories about schoolkids who seek, in very different ways, to transcend their daily lives through games.
Theresa Ho and Ella Rule cast a wry, inquiring eye upon a curious landmark in their city—Lake Burley Griffin, Boronia Mall; Xylia Yang writes into the ‘echoing stillness’ that comes after extinction; Isabella Pex paints a grimly funny poetic portrait of Lake Macquarie and its nearby factories; Kaz Zouain builds a house in the sky.
In our interviews section, Ellen van Neerven chats to Maya Crombie about the links between sport and literature, while Dominic Symes and Adela May Teubner pay loving tribute to Adelaide’s poetry scene, before considering the age-old question: To move or not to move (to Melbourne)?
All that, along with illustrations by Alexander Poljansek and cover art by Ella Rizzi, laid out by our wonderful new designer, Claire Summerville—here to ensure that Voiceworks stays the best-dressed lit mag in town.
Now—on your marks; get set; read!
