Yvette Henry Holt

Yvette Henry Holt heralds from the Yiman, Wakaman and Bidjara nations of Queensland. She is 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 in traditional format. Yvette best describes herself as the occasional poet.

Awards:

2005 David Unaipon Award

2008 Scanlon Prize for Indigenous Poetry

2008 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing

2010 Kate Challis RAKA Award

2018 Highly Commended for the Queensland Poetry Oodgeroo Noonuccal Prize

2024 Queensland Writers Centre Johnno Award named in honour after David Malouf’s debut novel Johnno

Publications:

2008 Anonymous Premonition, University of Queensland Press

2026 Fitzroy North 3068 (Upswell Publishing)

“Fitzroy North 3068 by multi-award-winning poet Yvette Henry Holt is more than a collection of poems – it is an experience. To call it “immersive” feels almost inadequate for a work that is so completely transportive. These captivating, powerful poems have the ability to quieten the world around the reader, creating the sense that you are not simply reading the pages but instead stepping directly into the spaces Holt describes. Through memoir, psychoanalysis and psychogeography, Holt offers vivid glimpses into the childhood and adolescence that formed the person she has become. She writes with raw honesty, leading readers through the places and people that shaped her – mothers, lovers, mentors and therapists – and offering unguarded insight into her inner life.”
—Fitzroy North 3068 Books+Publishing (10/03/2026)
Chloe Cook is a freelance reviewer and writer, currently working in libraries. Books+Publishing is Australia’s number-one source of pre-publication book reviews.