'Mangrove Girls' by Lulu Houdini | 30in30

Lulu Houdini is a proud Gamilaraay/Gomeroi woman, writer, artsworker, nurse and birth worker. She creates and explores around connections with poetry of land, sea, sky, story.

The main themes she explores are texture, Country, identity, traditional language, kweer nature, sensuality, love and finding our way back home to the guniimara, the mother's hands. She currently lives on and cares for Kabi Kabi/Gubbi Gubbi & Jinibara Country, Sunshine Coast.

Lulu is also one of the inaugural recipients of the Emerging Poets Residency, which is currently open for applications! Here she is reading her poem 'Mangrove Girls'. Read the full poem here:

https://redroompoetry.org/poets/lulu-houdini/mangrove-girls/

Poetry Month (1–31 August) is an initiative presented by Red Room Poetry to increase the profile of Australian poetry in all of its forms. Every day across Poetry Month, 30in30 delivers new original poetry, reflections and writing prompts from some of the country’s leading poets, public figures, and spoken word artists. https://redroompoetry.org/projects/poetry-month/

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