unbound Book Club

unbound invited audiences to reimagine representations of people, places and experiences through the voices of First Nations and Black authors from around the world. unbound offered avid and occasional readers the opportunity to choose from a curated list of biographies, memoirs, poetry, short stories, essays and fiction. During unbound participants were invited to monthly facilitated conversations at Rockhampton Museum of Art with Dr Melinda Mann (First Nations Arts Officer). 

2025 unbound series

unbound series XI

• Personal Score - Sport, Culture, Identity by Ellen van Neervan
• The Shield and the Spear - the Kimberley Land Council by Joe Fox

unbound series X

• Simply Ing, Helen (Ing) Nellie and Margaret O'Brien
• The Savage Coloniser Book, Tusiata Avia

unbound series IX

• Growing Up Torres Strait Islander, edited by Samantha Faulkner
• Ruby Moonlight, Ali Cobby Eckermann

unbound series VIII

• Black Witness: The Power of Indigenous Media, Amy McQuire

2024 unbound series

unbound series VII

• Common People, Tony Birch
• Homecoming, Elfie Shiosaki
• Always Will Be, Mykalea Saunders

unbound series VI

• The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House, Audre Lorde
• how to make a basket, by Wiradjuri poet Jazz Money
• Power Born of Dreams: My Story is Palestine, Mohammad Sabaaneh

2023 unbound series

unbound series V

• Finding Eliza, Larissa Behrendt
• Always Italicise: how to write while colonised, Alice Te Punga Somerville

unbound series IV

• Parable of the Talents, Octavia E. Butler 
• Wild Seed, Octavia E. Butler 
• Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler 

2022 unbound series

unbound series III

• Fire Front: First Nations poetry and power today, edited by Alison Whittaker
• The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela, Sisonke Msimang
• Home, Larissa Behrendt
• Where the Fruit Falls, Karen Wyld
• Sister Girl, Jackie Huggins

unbound series II

• Another Day in the Colony, Chelsea Watego
• Dark as Last Night, Tony Birch
• After Story, Larissa Behrendt
• Astronomy Sky Country, Karlie Noon and Krystal De Napoli
• A History of My Brief Body, Billy-Ray Belcourt

unbound series I

• Black and Blue, Veronica Gorrie
• Bila Yarudhanggalanghuray, Anita Heiss
• all about love, bell hooks
• Drop Bear, Evelyn Araluen
• Flock: First Nations Stories Then and Now, Edited by Ellen van Neervan