Winner, 2025 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards - Poetry<br/>Shortlisted, 2025 NSW Literary Awards - Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry<br/>'Leane's collection is masterful and breath-taking … With Gawimarra: Gathering, Leane reinforces her reputation as one of Australia's most evocative and essential poets.' ArtsHub<br/>'In Leane's work, the most persuasive and moving poems are not manifestos, but provocations that make us see, understand, feel, why Indigenous Australia wants and needs to reclaim its languages, its sacred practices, its understandings of country.' The Age<br/><br/><b>This superb collection moves from deeply tender meditations on Country, culture and kinship, to experimental archival poems dissecting the violence and destruction of the settler-colony. Jeanine Leane's poems are richly palpable in texture, imagery and language, layering the personal with the political, along with a sharp-tongued telling of history. Cleverly divided into three parts, 'Gathering', 'Nation' and 'Returning', <i>Gawimarra</i> weaves back and forth in a dedication to strong matriarchs, and the core acts of gathering and returning - memory, language, history - resonate powerfully throughout. This remarkable book is the result of decades of poetic, political, and cultural work and reflection.</b><br/><br/>