Cirrus@Austlit

'Fitzroy North 3068 explores Henry Holt's pulsating psycho-geographical R.M. Williams footprints from Western Arrernte (Hermannsburg) to Westminster with many stops in between. It is a wild and erotic ride.

'In Fitzroy North 3068 poet Yvette Henry Holt weaves a web of humour, confrontation, complaints, sex, childhood, livelihood, reflection, deferred intimacy, poetry, insecurity, truth, and emotional procrastination. This volume holds dialogue between a Jewish analyst and a geographically wayward east-coast blackfella travelling from Central Australia to Melbourne's inner city in order to figure out what it's all about. Fitzroy North 3068 is awash with humour that holds similar in input and outcome, and equally as dry as the proverbial bone.

'A collection of memories, temperament and Henry Holt's resolve to become neither patient nor client throughout her confessional sittings allows these poems to plunge cold hard and fast into the depths of a subconscious fortitude, all the while revealing follicles from life with humour, insecurity, Lutheranism and Jewish wit. It is a wild and erotic ride.'  (Publication summary)

'Borderless presents a collection of brand new, specially commissioned poems from a wide range of contemporary poets reflecting on feminism in its broadest sense. While it builds on the work of previous anthologies, in this one the voices of First Nations, refugee and migrant poets are a deliberate focus. These poems plunge the reader deep into the experience of life in the world, at this moment, in a woman’s body, and explore multitudinous versions of what that can mean.'

Source : publisher's blurb

'“spinifex scriptures” and “desert analysis” deconstruct through poetry and photography the post-colonial presence of Christian armour, and environmental desert rust – recycled through the economical chambers of abandonment.' (Publication abstract)