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Fitzroy North 3068
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Yvette Holt’s metaphors are spellbinding: a book of stone in peach truths and September honeycomb, all footstep memory – no compass required, where the pages read you. Join the poet ankled by mangroves in herstory, then converse with galaxies as lighthouse keepers receive tangelo gifts. Melding language and spirit, Yvette Henry Holt has risen to the celestial soul-dance that is Fitzroy North 3068.
Anna Jacobson
Fitzroy North 3068 opens with a provocation: Can you keep a secret? Because this collection heaves with them — confessional in the truest sense. Yvette Henry Holt’s poems traverse a psychic and geographic cartography from Inala to Footscray, Athens to London. A “proud aboriginal indigenous native black sovereign woman of colour” whose pronouns are “me /myself /and I”, Holt writes through memory, identity, and matrilineal inheritance, conversing with ghosts, ancestors, poets, muses, and the archetypal inhabitants of her unconscious mind. Erotic, spiritual, irreverent, and unflinchingly intelligent, Yvette teases the reader by concealing as much as it reveals. I dare you to take your place on the chaise lounge of Holt’s analytic poetry and read this book as it “reads you” back.
Michele Seminara
Fitzroy North 3068
About the Book:
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!
About the Author:
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.
ISBN: 978-0-6459840-7-1
Cover artwork: Damian Crosbie