In Fitzroy North 3068 multi-award-winning poet Yvette Henry Holt climbs in and out of her subconscious abode to take the reader on a global psycho-geographical journey of literal and metaphorical wonderment commencing from Inala East to East London, Melbourne to Memphis, Athens to Komodo Island. Spliced with psychoanalysis. Peppered with addiction, reflection, and faith — Yvette Henry Holt owns everything that exits her mouth and then some. Grounded in impossibly ravishing language, wisdom experience and wit this is a hauntingly statuesque collection of truth, revelations, matrilineal memory, humour and cultural reverence. Once you open this book, you cannot unopen it!
Yvette Henry Holt heralds from the Bidjara, Yiman and Wakaman nations of Queensland. A multi-award-winning poet, essayist, editor and an accomplished social landscape photographer, Yvette has been a pillar of First Nations literary leadership and an executive of Australian literature nationally and internationally for more than two decades. Yvette’s writings have been translated into multiple languages for more than two decades both online and traditional format. Yvette’s poetic lyricism reflects a baseline of psychogeographical and psychoanalytical reflecting global travel, therapy, desert dwellings and matrilineal herstory. Yvette best describes herself as the occasional poet.
Cover artwork: Damian Crosbie