20 Years of Spoken Word Poetry

Gabrielle Journey Jones is an award-winning performance poet born on sovereignGadigal Land, Sydney, Australia. She is from Māori and African American bloodlinesand has lived in Bega Valley on Djiringanj Country since 2018 with her family.Journey has shared her poetry at local, national and international events for 30years. Journey is inspired by creative communities which celebrate diversity, activismand inclusion.In this audio book, “20 Years of Spoken Word Poetry” Gabrielle Journey Jones readsand performs her first four poetry collections published by Ginninderra Press.Listeners can enjoy and engage with Journey’s 175 poems from Spoken Medicine(2017); Etymology of Courage (2021); The Purpose of Truth (2023); andArrangements (2025). Journey’s poetry is a celebration of truth-speaking. She hasrecorded this audiobook in her own voice, to tell her own stories and always hopes toencourage others to tell their own stories through poetry.Journey shares her stories of life in Australia as a woman of colour, mother,daughter, friend, lesbian, writer, musician, Social Worker, volunteer and creativecommunity organiser. Her poetry describes the land, waterways, skies and naturebelonging to First Nations peoples in the places she lives and loves. Journey’spoetry also advocates human rights, women’s resistance and shared responsibilitiesfor social justice. She provides a clear understanding of creativity in the form ofpoetry and drumming for personal wellbeing. Journey’s body of work highlights heartconnections and observations gifted in the process of being present to the emotionalintersectionalities of life, which poets are compelled to investigate through writtenand spoken word.