Dropbear

Evelyn Araluen

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English

Queensland Univ. Press
03 March 2021

Poetry; Poetry by individual poets; Stella Prize

An innovative collection of poetry and prose from a vibrant new Indigenous voice on the Australian literary scene.

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.

By: Evelyn Araluen
Imprint: Queensland Univ. Press
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 115g
ISBN: 9780702263187
ISBN 10: 0702263184
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 03 March 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Evelyn Araluen is a poet, researcher and co-editor of Overland Literary Journal. Her widely published criticism, fiction and poetry has been awarded the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers, the Judith Wright Poetry Prize, a Wheeler Centre Next Chapter Fellowship, and a Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund grant. Born and raised on Dharug country, she is a descendant of the Bundjalung Nation.