Mark the Dawn

A dazzling and impressive follow-up to Money's highly acclaimed debut, how to make a basket.

We gather marks. Our bodies, our stories, our histories and our world are made of infinite visible and invisible moments. We make marks to record, to remember, to honour, to protest. We mark time, for no matter how many times the sun sets, always it rises in a new dawn.

Jazz Money returns with her much-anticipated new poetry collection to ask about all the ways we rise to a moment. mark the dawn is a celebration of community and gathering, while negotiating the legacies of the intersecting histories we inherit. As a queer First Nations poet, Jazz Money unflinchingly declares that, despite everything that has come before, we remain glorious, abundant, sexy, joyous and determined.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Jazz Money is a Wiradjuri poet and artist based on Gadigal land, Sydney. Her practice is centred around poetics while producing works that encompass installation, digital, performance, film and print. Their writing has been widely published nationally and internationally, and performed on stages around the world.

Jazz's first poetry collection, the bestselling how to make a basket (UQP, 2021) was the 2020 winner of the David Unaipon Award. Their second poetry collection, mark the dawn, and their first illustrated children's book, Bila, a river cycle, are both forthcoming from UQP.