Lesley Synge has published four poetry collections, the most recent Work: new and selected poems (2025). The others are Signora Bella’s Grand Tour, Mountains Belong to the People who Love Them, and Organic Sister. Her award-winning novellas (Cry Ma Ma to the Moon, When Giuseppe Met Jackie) feature poets. She has also published non-fiction, Know Their Names: the Queensland government’s Aboriginal workers and the system that exploited them (2024) and the biography Wharfie (2017) with waterside worker Wal Stubbings. www.lesleysynge.com