First Edition Hardcover
Limited to 200 copies A$55 inc GST
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The limited edition hardcover is section sewn to allow for a flatter opening and includes a black ribbon bookmark. The paper is uncoated for a textured touch and weighing 0.3kg, the book is lovely to hold.
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Each book is hand numbered and signed by Amanda with the option of a personal message.
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The limited edition hardcover is proudly printed and bound in Australia by Revolution Print and Marvel Bookbinding using sustainably sourced paper (FSC, PEFC approved). You can read more about Revolution Print's environmental practices and products HERE.
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The limited edition hardcover is an official fundraiser for the Indigenous Literary Foundation. $2 from the sale of every book will be donated to help provide culturally relevant books and learning resources to children and families living in remote Communities across Australia. Donations also support the publishing of books written by Communities, for Communities, in languages of their choice.
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In addition to the 55 poems for reconnection and remembering yourself home, the limited edition hardback includes a blessing for your next step written especially for this edition. The book itself is organised in song cycles to reflect the rhythm in which the poems arrived, the journey itself and the ancient way humans navigated the world, intimately interwoven and in conversation with it.
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Included only in the limited edition hardcover, Jo Harjo's poem 'Remember' is the perfect introduction to the collection.
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Featuring untitled by internationally renowned Gold Coast-based artist Shane Drinkwater, the cover honours the colour and texture of the original artwork.
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The limited edition hardcover features six black and white images of the land and the more-than-human kin that supported the writing of the collection.
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NOTE: book orders will be processed after 14 October 2024
“This book is an apothecary filled with remedies for the ailments of modern life. Through her poems, Amanda facilitates a homecoming by giving voice to the unnamable force which lovingly yearns for our awakening. ”
— Chloe Hope, Death & Birds
About Reunion Songs
Reunion Songs is a must read for those wanting to feel empowered to make real change in their own life and to discover how small acts of liberation and love can help create a more beautiful, just and compassionate world.
This collection of 55 empowering poems offers comfort, hope, courage, inspiration and connection. With words for love and loss, longing and letting go, hope and help, faith and freedom, clarity and self-compassion, each poem is a homecoming and a portal to healing.
Look inside at some of the 55 poems
What readers of Reunion Songs are saying …
About the cover artist
Tasmanian-born artist Shane Drinkwater has exhibited widely in Australia and is represented internationally by galleries in New York, Massachusetts, Toronto, and Copenhagen. The Museum of the Mind in Amsterdam acquired nine of his works in 2021, featuring three in a recent exhibition.
Shane studied at the University of Tasmania and the National Art School in Sydney. After a fellowship in Paris, where he lived for six years, he settled in Queensland in 1994. Shane describes his painting as a process-driven exploration of colour, shape, and texture, using lines, dashes, and dots to create works that resemble coded systems or maps. He emphasizes that his work speaks for itself, rendering language unnecessary.
Visit Shane’s Instagram to see more of his work.
“With a voice that’s loving, curious and hungry for life, you’ll be guided on an exploration of themes of home, belonging, love, self-remembrance and awakening, and you’ll come away with just a little more courage to live life more boldly, more authentically and more aligned with that quiet but insistent voice within that’s always beckoning you home.”
— Emma Campbell Webster”
You are supporting the Indigenous Literary Foundation
$2 from the sale of each limited edition hardcover will be donated to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation.
Your donation helps provide culturally relevant books and learning resources to children and families living in remote Communities across Australia. Donations also support the publishing of books written by Communities, for Communities, in languages of their choice.
About the Indigenous Literacy Foundation
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) is a national charity working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander remote Communities across Australia. They are Community-led, responding to requests from remote Communities for culturally relevant books, including early learning board books, resources and programs to support Communities to create and publish their stories in languages of their choice.
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) is the 2024 recipient of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA) for children’s literature - a global award given annually to a person or organisation for their outstanding contribution to children’s and young adult literature.
“Poet, mystic and translator for the unseen, Amanda delivers healing balms, powerful invocations and cosmic truths, all with the lightest of touches.”
— Chloe Hope, Death & Birds
About the author
Amanda is a writer, poet and songwriter.
Born and raised in the bush outside the city of Brisbane, Australia, she spent most of her adult life far from home, including six years in the middle of nowhere.
She now lives close to where she started, on unceded Yuggera Turrbal Country, with her husband, daughter and animal family.
Amanda is author of the popular poetry Substack Appetite for Living.