Dropbear / Evelyn Araluen
Dropbear / Evelyn Araluen
Shortlisted, 2021 Queensland Literary Awards – Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection
Shortlisted, 2022 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards – Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
Shortlisted, 2021 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards – Indigenous Writing
Shortlisted, 2022 Australian Book Industry Awards – Small Publishers’ Adult Book of the Year
Highly Commended, 2021 Anne Elder Award
I told you this was a thirst so great it could carve rivers.
This fierce debut from award-winning writer Evelyn Araluen confronts the tropes and iconography of an unreconciled nation with biting satire and lyrical fury. Dropbear interrogates the complexities of colonial and personal history with an alternately playful, tender and mournful intertextual voice, deftly navigating the responsibilities that gather from sovereign country, the spectres of memory and the debris of settler-coloniality. This innovative mix of poetry and essay offers an eloquent witness to the entangled present, an uncompromising provocation of history, and an embattled but redemptive hope for a decolonial future.
Publisher: UQP 2021 @ Evelyn Araluen
Cover design: Jenna Lee
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