Yasmin Smith

Yasmin Smith is a poet and editor of South Sea Islander, Kabi Kabi, Northern Cheyenne and English heritage. Her poems have appeared in Frankie, Meanjin, Island, Griffith Review, Overland, Australian Poetry Journal, Best of Australian Poetry and more. In 2024 she won the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers and the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize, and received the First Nations Flagship Fellowship at Varuna. She is currently an editor at UQP working across fiction, non-fiction, children’s books and poetry where her work includes overseeing their groundbreaking First Nations Classics series.

Articles by Yasmin Smith:

18 December 202418 December 2024 · Nakata Brophy Prize

Dawning in the rivulet of my father’s mourning

Yasmin Smith

My father floats words down Toonooba each morning. They arrive to me by noon. / Nothing diminishes in his unfolding, not even the currents in midwinter June. / He narrates the sky prehistorically like a cadence cutting him into deluge.

Published in Overland Issue 243 Winter 2021 · Teaser

The saltpan

Yasmin Smith

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