Gabrielle Journey Jones is an award-winning performance poet born on sovereign

Gadigal Land, Sydney, Australia. She is from Māori and African American bloodlines

and 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 30

years. Journey is inspired by creative communities which celebrate diversity, activism

and inclusion.

In this audio book, “20 Years of Spoken Word Poetry” Gabrielle Journey Jones reads

and 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); and

Arrangements (2025). Journey’s poetry is a celebration of truth-speaking. She has

recorded this audiobook in her own voice, to tell her own stories and always hopes to

encourage 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 creative

community organiser. Her poetry describes the land, waterways, skies and nature

belonging to First Nations peoples in the places she lives and loves. Journey’s

poetry also advocates human rights, women’s resistance and shared responsibilities

for social justice. She provides a clear understanding of creativity in the form of

poetry and drumming for personal wellbeing. Journey’s body of work highlights heart

connections and observations gifted in the process of being present to the emotional

intersectionalities of life, which poets are compelled to investigate through written

and spoken word.