The author Ellen Van Neerven describes their poetry collection Throat as ‘a fierce cry: a collection of poems about whiteness, climate change, extinctions; about types of shame lodged squarely in the throat; about culpability and protection.’

While briefing me, the publisher passed on this note from Ellen regarding the cover: ‘... interestingly I’ve been thinking of an image of a face on the cover. Never thought I’d go there but... Just how relevant it might be to have a representation of a queer First Nations person. So even happy for it to be a representation of my face!?! if necessary.’