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Butter
Issue Details:
First known date:
2020...
no.
119
Winter
2020
of
Voiceworks
est. 1988
Voiceworks
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'This is a cliché, but time feels very fast and slow this year. I thought about this a lot during Ramadan. Watching the sun across the day and the moon across the month. Feeling time in when I woke up, when I started feeling hunger pangs, when I had to lower my blinds so the sun wouldn’t give me a headache. The lunar calendar comes out of sync with the solar one a little more each year. I feel a renewed sense of grief for my friend who died shortly before Eid a few years ago. The actual anniversary of her death isn’t for another three weeks.' (Adayla Nash Hussein , Editorial introduction)
Notes
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Includes comics:
Carving thru concrete with a butter knife
Bread and butter Zhana Maticevski
Productivity on commute Jes Layton
Tipping pip
Butter girl Yuna Yamasaki Davis
Contents
* Contents derived from the 2020 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- A Mixture of Tongan and English, single work short story (p. 8-13)
- Dotted Lines on a Box in a Storage Uniti"Sometimes certain kinds of dough make my throat clench", single work poetry (p. 14-15)
- Eat Bitter, Taste Whole, single work prose (p. 16-23)
- The Passion of St Lawrence, single work short story (p. 29-35)
- Frog Sonatai"峡 [xiá]", single work poetry (p. 36-38)
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One Thousand Quails Over West Melbourne Swamp,
single work
prose
(p. 39-43)'The suburbs where Carrum Carrum Swamp used to be remind me of my grandparents' old neighbourhood in south brisbane, blonde brick and bland. The kind of suburb where families have lived in the same house since the 1960s and an overgrown lawn is offensive. But as I drive further south, there are horses in a paddock by the roadside and tall eucalyptus trees. I'm only forty minutes out of Melbourne and it feels like the countryside. Before 1879 the suburban houses and horse paddocks would have looked like the edithvale-seaford wetlands: dark muddy water, paperbark trees, herons.' (Publication abstract)
- Comai"she’s a fan of the neighbourhood", single work poetry (p. 44-45)
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30 December(s),
single work
prose
(p. 49-56)
'Bucharest was in a time of its own, we were told; each hour measured by small distractions, preserved between a weight that kept mouths shut and curtains drawn. Like autumn leaves, the past dried into a shape that outlived itself. The Law of Conservation of Mass states that matter cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed.' (Publication abstract)
- Teatimei"my grandfather's tea,", single work poetry (p. 57)
- Maharal, single work short story (p. 59-66)
- Earthly Pleasuresi"we can smell the earth as it is stirred by the rain", single work poetry (p. 72-73)
- Calving, single work short story (p. 75-79)
- Zeitmaschine IIIi"do you remember ribbing me about what services", single work poetry (p. 80-81)
- Wearing Speedos and Other Things I Couldn't Do a Year Ago, single work prose (p. 84-89)
- To Rings and Bits of Aquamarinei"summer / i am unravelling into the stream of leaf and wave and fly and smoke / like wire you bind me", single work poetry (p. 91)
- Meeting Mr Fish, single work short story (p. 94-99)
- We Made This Deserti"i’m your king", single work poetry (p. 100-102)
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