Gumbootspearlz (aka June Paisa Perkins) has indi published four books, two of them poetry collections. Presently copies of the award winning Magic Fish Dreaming and Illuminations (and a few anthologies she is included in) can be purchased through June’s online shop.

You can find out more about her publications , the latest of which is a poem, ‘Climate Awakenings’ shared in Moana Women Rising and some of her work is listed at Aust Lit. Work forthcoming in Cordite Poetry Review.

Some of June’s poetry for children may be found here at Australian Children’s Poetry (A total of 16 poems)

 

Published in

Cordite Poetry Review, forthcoming (November, 2026),A FTS Anthology forthcoming, Moana Women Rising (2026: APEN and Moana) Wonderstruck wonderers, interactive, QAGOMA (2025) Oyster Catcher1, Elixr 17 (2024), QPoetry Installation (2024), Talanoa Navigating our Narratives (2023), Journal of Baha’i Studies (2023), Story Factory multilingual project (2022), Writing Queensland (2023, 2021), Southerly (2022), Panacea Poets (2021), Red Room Poetry(2020), South of the Sun (2021), QAGOMA Art Adventure installation(2018), Etchings (2007, 2011), AFTS Ezines (2021-2024,2026), Tokens (2018-2022), and Share Your Story Anthologies (2018, 2019) and several other anthologies.