20 Years of Spoken Word Poetry

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.