Yvette Henry Holt

Brisbane born, Yvette Henry Holt heralds from the Yiman, Wakaman and Bidjara nations of Queensland. A multi-award-winning poet, essayist, editor and an accomplished social landscape photographer. Yvette’s writings have been translated into multiple languages for more than two decades both online and traditional format —recipient of the David Unaipon Award 2005, Scanlon Prize for Indigenous Poetry 2008, Kate Challis RAKA Award 2010, Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing 2008, and recipient of the Queensland Writers Centre Johnno Award 2024, named after David Malouf’s debut novel Johnno.

With avidity and passion Yvette advocates and facilitates workshops nationally and internationally on the poetics of indigenous cultural space, environmental narratives — editing and publishing. Yvette best describes herself as The Occasional Poet.

In Fitzroy North 3068, poet Yvette Henry Holt explores her pulsating psycho-geographical R.M. Williams footprints from Western Arrernte (Hermannsburg) to Westminster with many stops in between. It is a wild and erotic ride. Henry Holt weaves a web of humour, confrontation, complaints, sex, childhood, livelihood, reflection, deferred intimacy, poetry, insecurity, truth andemotional procrastination.This volume holds dialogue between a Jewish analyst and a geographically wayward east-coast blackfella travelling from Central Australia to Melbourne’s inner city in order to figure out what it’s all about. Fitzroy North 3068 is awash with humour that holds similarly in input and outcome, and equally as dry as the proverbial bone. A collection of memories, temperament and Henry Holt’s resolve to become neither patient nor client throughout her confessional sittings allows these poems to plunge cold hard and fast into the depths of a subconscious fortitude, all the while revealing follicles from life with humour, insecurity, Lutheranism and Jewish wit.

YVETTE HENRY HOLT heralds from the Bidjara, Wakaman and Yiman Nations of Queensland. A multi-award-winning poet, editor, essayist, and accomplished social landscape photographer, Yvette’s writings have been translated into multiple languages for more than two decades both online and traditional publishing format – the recipient of the David Unaipon Award 2005, Scanlon Prize for Indigenous Poetry 2008, Kate Challis RAKA Award 2010, Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing 2008, and recipient of the Queensland Writers Centre Johnno Award 2024. With avidity and passion Yvette advocates for and facilitates workshops nationally and internationally on the poetics of indigenous cultural space, indigenous environmental narratives, editing and publishing. Yvette best describes herself as ‘The Occasional Poet’.

Fitzroy North 3068 is Yvette’s second published collection of poetry (Upswell Publishing May 2026),