‘Within the pages of this crackling debut collection, Jazz Money guides us through the steps on how to make a basket, a learning seeped in a deep respect for country; her heart and veins, her soil and spirit. Poetry sings and calls to us on every page, within each line, sometimes quietly, but also with roaring energy. I adore this book, and will cherish having learned from Jazz Money that it takes true love to make a great poem.’

‘how to make a basket is a lesson written on the body, navigating contours and flows on country, awakenings and flesh; a delicate constellation of strands reflecting rivers and stars, spilling moonglow and song on the pulse of time. This is a fierce and intimate offering storied through blood and secrets and salt and ash; an exquisite weave of pleasure and pain to carry heartbeats and truths, gifted to ancestors and her every horizon.’

‘This is a brilliant debut that leaps, lights, and lives in tune with the depths of love. Satirical, sensitive, and subversive, Jazz Money is a poet to watch.’

‘Jazz Money rebirths the art of storytelling in how to make a basket: a fervent compass of language and time, echoing the lines of unceded memories.’

‘A luminous and beautifully sculpted, seamless collection of poems that reflects on place and passion. how to make a basket builds on the growing canon of work by contemporary Indigenous women poets, yet offers a new, fresh perspective on remembering and forgetting.’