Welcome to the wonders of Voiceworks #85: Other, equal parts strange and familiar.
Bridget Chappell visits Iraqi Kurdistan to examine sex work and women’s rights in the region. Alexandra Fisher talks to a former child soldier in Uganda. Duncan Felton hunts for ghosts and otherworldly experiences in Canberra. Kate Cantrell’s friend has a phobia of wild things. Jeevika Makani explains how social businesses can end poverty.
In Raeden Richardson’s story, Mother Pulse whirs across the clay of an unfinished housing community in her electric scooter, chomping on cicadas. Peter Dawncy sees an ocean of blue quartz, great glistening waves tinkling in from the deep. Elizabeth Tan chronicles a Spambot’s love for the internet. In Emily Sim’s poem the sky is full of children. Daniel Graham’s poem is called: ‘One Day Archaeologists Will Find a Hole in the Shape of Our Embracing Bodies Where We Were Deposited in a Prehistoric Marsh’.
There’s an interview with Benjamin Law about The Family Law and his next book, Gaysia, plus more nonfiction from Kate Phelan and Camila Galaz. Fiction also from Tayne Ephraim, Michael Richardson, Nick Nedeljkovic, Dominic Amerena, Alice Bishop, Laura Vitis and Jack Vening. More poetry by Sarah Stanton, Anna Dunnill, Morgan Richards, Broede Carmody, Andrew Hearl, Margarita Tenser, Joel Ephraims and Louise Millar. Visual art from Llewellyn Mejia, Ashley Ronning, Jiayueh Choong and Jess McCausland.
