Eartha Davis, màthair beinn

Forthcoming September 2025

màthair beinn thrums with Earth. It captures an ancient conversation: one that soars between Mountain and woman, land spirit and human spirit, softening and strengthening. Tenderly honouring Davis’s Ngāpuhi and Scottish ancestry, rewarming and reviving ancestral language, it unfurls what her ancestors call aroha: a compassion that buds in the tracery of rivers, oceans, beats from within our own pulse-blessed veins. This debut collection is an ode to healing and gentleness. It rustles with return: a return to body, to wildness, to the steadily-beating heart of presence.  

‘Eartha is a brilliant young poet whose work is devoted to the natural world. It is an ode to the ephemeral, the physical, the eternal, to the magic that lives and breathes through and beyond us all. It is a gorgeous celebration of human and non-human bodies and an invitation to dissolve the boundaries between them. In today’s world, stripped of romanticism and myth by capitalism, colonisation, and mass industrialisation, Eartha’s poetry is not only a salve, but a much-needed solution—a gentle plea to remember ourselves, to recall our relationship with the land, and to move towards love.’  Alisha Brown

Eartha Davis is a woman of Ngāpuhi and Celtic heritage living on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung land. She is the winner of the AAWP/Express Media Sudden Writing Prize and the recipient of a 2025 Varuna Residential Fellowship. In 2024, Davis was an intern at Red Room poetry, working closely on their POEM FOREST project to publish over 5,400 nature poems written by students and teachers across the continent; a tree was planted for every poem published. She placed second in the 2022 Woorilla Poetry Prize Louise Rockne Youth section and was long-listed for the 2024 Sappho Prize for Women Poets. Her work has appeared in the Australian Poetry Anthology, Cordite, Rabbit, South Coast Writer’s Centre Anthology, Wildness, Express Media, Minarets, takahē, Frozen Sea, Baby Teeth Journal, and South Florida Poetry Journal. màthair beinn is her debut collection.

Eartha Davis, màthair beinn
September 2025. 148mm x 210mm. 96pp.
ISBN 978-1-925735-77-2

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.