Commissioned by Red Room Poetry, Edited by Anne-Marie Te Whiu
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Building on the success of the Guwayu anthology, this second collaboration between Red Room Poetry and Magabala Books brings leading First Nations poets into rich poetic conversation. Woven connects voices across lands and oceans, highlighting the strength, diversity, and continuity of First Nations poetry in Australia and around the world.
As Anne-Marie Te Whiu explains, the collection is grounded in relationality—renewing bonds of solidarity, memory, land, family, and healing through shared poetic exchange.
Poet collaborations in the anthology
Linda Tuhiwai Smith & Jackie Huggins; Ali Cobby Eckermann & Joy Harjo; Natalie Harkin & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson; Samuel Wagan Watson & Sigbjørn Skåden; Tony Birch & Simon J. Ortiz; Ellen Van Neerven & Layli Long Soldier; Evelyn Araluen & Anahera Gildea; Lorna Munro & January Rogers; Alison Whittaker & Nadine Hura; Rhyan Clapham (aka Dobby) & Nils Rune Utsi (aka SlinCraze); Declan Fry & Craig Santos Perez; Bebe Backhouse-Oliver & Peter Sipeli; Jazz Money & Cassandra Barnett; Charmaine Papertalk Green & Anna Naupa; Chelsea Watego & Emma Wehipeihana; Raelee Lancaster & essa may ranapiri
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