Voiceworks 'Puzzle' is putting the pieces together!
Voiceworks Issue #132 ‘Puzzle’ is hot off the press! In this issue our contributors tackle everything that baffles, bewilders and bemuses them. This issue is beautifully pieced together with mesmerising cover art by Kaijern Koo and lively illustrations by Madi Marston.
In nonfiction, float through The Drift, Aidan Demmers’ poetic musing on autistic modes of relation to emotions and the body. Feel pangs of absence and yearning as Lucinda Lagos echoes Barthes and Ovid in their examination of the love letter from classical history to present day in Kissing the Envelope: Why Write a Love Letter? In poetry, search for meaning (and words) in Sonal Kamble’s poetic word find, sol(v)itude, and enjoy the playful and poignant rhythms in Matthew Platakos’s poem Tongue-twisted.
In art and comics, Miles Hiroshi Huỳnh’s artwork Saigon Manuscript is a beautifully inky ode to the mysterious Voynich manuscript. In their comic Agapanthus, Stella Theorcharides finds poetry in grief, gardening and caring for small animals. Lawrence Parson zooms in on the violence of empire in their striking historical comic Khan, and Mel Dineli’s protagonist takes an online quiz to work out if they’re gay (spoiler alert: they are).
This issue is topped off with a special puzzle section – try your hand at a Voiceworks-themed crossword, a comic exercise, spot the difference and more.
Congrats to all our contributors and thank you to all our readers and subscribers. We hope you get a kick out of Puzzle!