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Cheryl Leavy Cheryl Leavy i(25054160 works by)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Guwamu / Kooma
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1 y separately published work icon Yanga Mother Cheryl Leavy , Cheryl Leavy (illustrator), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2024 26852350 2024 single work picture book children's

'Wandaguli Yanga.There is always Mother. Yilungga yabangga. Everywhere. Wandhan-wandhanja. Everywhen.

'From Kooma and Nguri writer Cheryl Leavy comes this lyrical bilingual picture book about the all-encompassing love of mothers, layered with meaning and historical truth-telling.

'Yanga Mother honours the unbreakable spirit of the First Nations women of Western Queensland, and all First Nations mothers.' (Publication summary)
1 Walk This Page like Country i "yilayi", Cheryl Leavy , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 15 September no. 106 2022;
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