She is the Earth Gift Card Joshua Button is a young

Joshua Button is a young Indigenous author with a keen interest in the saltwater country he has grown up in

a Ritharrŋu and Madarrpa artist who lives in Ngukurr in South-East Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory

Based on the sometimes controversial theory of how Australian Rules Football developed from ‘marngrook’

Telling fits with this year’s NAIDOC theme

Ashlee was determined to keep her family together

She is the Earth Gift Card Joshua Button is a youngWINNER, 2024 NSW PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS, BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER, 2024 NSW PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS, INDIGENOUS WRITERS' PRIZE SHORTLISTED, 2024 PRIME MINISTER'S LITERARY AWARDS, POETRY LONGLISTED, 2024 STELLA PRIZE She Is the Earth is the luminous new verse novel from celebrated poet Ali Cobby Eckermann. It charts a journey through grief and celebrates the healing power of Country. We follow Eckermanns soft footfalls in the open (but far from