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.

'mark the dawn is simply stunning and Jazz effortlessly pulls me through to the next, and next astounding poem. I love the intelligence of Jazz Money.' - Alexis Wright

'mark the dawn is Blak, queer, campfire poetry, pages ablaze. From its daybreak opening poems until the last page, Jazz Money's second collection is multiverse, tender and exquisite.' - Anne-Marie Te Whiu

'These poems reveal life in every line, bound by indomitable truth: language and being are indivisible from country, and all its wonder, complexity, beauty, constant ephemerality. mark the dawn is a (living) book of gentle, visceral masterpieces.' - Sara M Saleh

'Jazz Money's second book is not so much a collection of poetry as a conjuration, a sentient document of Freshwater metaphysics. Do not mistake this language for English, nor this as a work of Australian literature: it is Wiradjuri literature, the source-code of Country pulsing through every riparian beat and curve. It is a Wiradjuri blade that cuts these swift grooves into the coloniser's tongue, a Wiradjuri weaver who dextrously fashions this vessel for your weariness, Wiradjuri eros that kindles this cleansing smoke, Wiradjuri love that animates every syllable and sings your queer Blak bones into their sovereign vibration. Read this work aloud in one long exhalation: may this current carry you where you need to go.' - SJ Norman

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.

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