Arsenic Flower

Dakota Feirer

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Hachette Australia
30 September 2025

Poetry; Poetry by individual poets

A stunning poetry collection from black&write! fellowship winner Dakota Feirer.

In this breathtaking debut collection, Bundjalung and Gumbaynggirr man Dakota Feirer potently explores the legacy of generational trauma and the cultural wisdom of First Nations people. In a landscape of loss, his words act as both spear and shield.

With dazzling imagery and rhythms inspired by lo-fi

hip-hop, these poems confront the violence of colonialism that echoes still in the complexities of blak masculinity.

Drawing on cultural memories sprung from stolen

Country, bloodstained soil, broken promises and

poisoned waterholes, Feirer's words roar and whisper as he gives voice to silenced histories.

Arsenic Flower is a stunning mosaic of intimate poetry. These words are spears pointing toward truth and shattering the myth that we are all equal on stolen land.

'Dakota Feirer's writing carries the force of a lightning strike and the flow of an ancient river current. This collection is overflowing with rhythm, wisdom and urgency. A startlingly fresh voice.' JAZZ MONEY

'A powerful, diverse, original and very heartfelt collection of poems.' JEANINE LEANE

'With his award-winning debut collection, Dakota Feirer summons his Ancestors and yours. Expect to be haunted and held as you gather by the river for ritual, remembrance

and reckoning.' KIRLI SAUNDERS

'Dakota Feirer is a poet of great skill. Each work in this collection is a song, every line a layer of our sense of selves as Mob. Feirer is also a poet who respects those who have walked and written before him. I know this through his words.' TONY BIRCH

'Tender and intimate . . . Feirer writes with a biting, subversive edge . . . clear in language and boldly creative in form' BOOKS+PUBLISHING

'Exquisite, profound and deeply moving' VOGUE AUSTRALIA

By: Dakota Feirer
Imprint: Hachette Australia
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 135mm,
Weight: 300g
ISBN: 9780733653636
ISBN 10: 0733653634
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 30 September 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Dakota Feirer is a First Nations Australian (Bundjalung and Gumbaynggirr) storyteller with his work published in Overland literary journal, Wonderground journal, Rabbit Poetry and Australian Poetry. His work consists of poems, prose and spoken word performances that engage with Country, culture, resurgence and manhood. Dakota believes in healing Country and our communities through art and storytelling.