'Poets traverse barefoot through immaterial places like the past, the future, and dreams. The container that houses the immaterial is the body. It is Country. Wergaia and Wemba Wemba poet Susie Anderson’s debut collection, the body country (2023), is a timeless capsule in which the material and immaterial are swirling in figure eights and where the self metamorphoses over and over in a delicate surrender to the infinite rhythms of Country.' (Introduction)