Join Editor Carody Culver and Griffith Review 87 contributors Shauna Bostock and Tony Matthews as they explore the myths and promises of home, from the politics of dispossession to the complexities of Australia’s property problem – plus enjoy a poetry reading from fellow edition contributor Cheryl Leavy. 

Shauna Bostock is Indigenous Australian Research Editor in the National Centre of Biography at ANU. For her PhD thesis she traced her four Aboriginal grandparents’ family lines as far back as possible in the historical written record. Her thesis was published as Reaching Through Time: Finding My Family’s Stories by Allen & Unwin and won the Community and Regional History Prize at the 2024 NSW Premier’s History Awards.  

Tony Matthews is an urban planner, scholar and international advocate for good cities. His award-winning work addresses current and emerging urban challenges through research, engagement and practice. A faculty member at Griffith University, his publications have been translated into French, Italian and Spanish.   

Cheryl Leavy writes non-fiction, poetry and children’s literature. Her first children’s book, Yanga Mother, was published by UQP in 2024. She has been awarded the Oodgeroo Noonuccal Prize for Indigenous Poetry, a First Nations Australian Writers Network Fellowship at Varuna, a First Nations Fellowship at Queensland Museum and a 2024 Queensland Writers Fellowship. She is from the Kooma and Nguri nations in western and central Queensland and is passionate about language revitalisation, often writing in Kooma. 

^{Image: Phoebe Paradise, Subtropical Surreal 2020, HD video (still), courtesy of the artist and Brisbane City Council’s Public Art Collection. Animation by Helena Papageorgiou.}