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Eight books, including a picture book, and a manuscript arranged against a while wall and yellow floor.

A picture book spread, showing a painted beach scene, with four Indigenous people standing on a path to the water.

A square children's book cover for Three Dresses by Wanda Gibson, featuring a simple drawing of a woman holding a dress.

"Poetry does the important, essential work that governments and the media and history don't do, or don't do very well,"
she said.

Wanda Gibson, an older Indigenous woman, sits surrounded by four young Aboriginal women in printed dresses.

A book cover showing a misty road passing through a forest with a flock of birds in the foreground

"I really wanted Highway 13 to tap into the kind of unsettling feeling of, 'Oh, this can happen here as well.'"
A portrait of Fiona McFarlane, a middle-aged woman in glasses, standing, smiling slightly, in a striped shirt.

A book cover for I'd Rather Not by Robert Skinner, featuring a drawing of a monkey on a cliff.

A portrait of Robert Skinner, a young man with long hair and a moustache, sitting smiling brightly, hands clasped.

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