Serpent and Stone by Mari Ellis Dunning & Natalie Ann Holborrow #books and poet -- the title

and poet -- the title of his poem ‘anti-islanding’ points to what this collection achieves -- the threading together in an imaginative whole what are too often discrete ‘issues’: personal experiences as an Australian descendant of settlers on indigenous Noongar land

bringing themselves to life through an amazing

Threaded throughout is the beautiful complexity and vulnerability of the planet

but the poems also have a wonderful

Serpent and Stone by Mari Ellis Dunning & Natalie Ann Holborrow #books and poet -- the titleSerpent and Stone is a collaborative sequence by Mari Ellis Dunning and Natalie Ann Holborow that hands the mic to the women sidelined, simplified, or demonised by inherited stories. Moving through five sections, from fairy tales and Greek myth to Shakespearean figures, canonical literature and biblical archetypes, the book writes in paired poems that speak across each other, rethreading voice, motive, and agency. These monologues are sharp, sensual,