Gold Digger: Lisa Collyer with Willo Drummond and Magdalena Ball

Gold Digger challenges the enduring myths of domesticity by portraying women as breadwinners, unearthing the realities of labour, aspiration, and social mobility. Collyer deftly reveals how women's work - often overlooked or undervalued - has always been present, from the kitchen to the corridors of power. Motifs of unfair play and erasure echo throughout, reaching even the highest tiers of government, including Parliament House.

The collection features The Grape Picker[s], shortlisted for the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize (2025).

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Lisa Collyer is a poet and educator living and working in Boorloo (Perth). She is the author of the poetry collection How To Order Eggs Sunny Side Up, which was short-listed for The Dorothy Hewett Award in 2022 and is published by Gazebo’s poetry imprint Life Before Man. Her poetry has appeared in Westerly,…