Dropbear, 9780702263187
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Unreconciled nation’s story: fierce, lyrical, and deeply personal Indigenous truth.
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Dropbear

2022 Stella Prize Winner

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  • Paperback

    96 pages

  • Release Date

    1 March 2021

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Summary

An innovative collection of poetry and prose from a vibrant new Indigenous voice on the Australian literary scene. Winner of the 2022 Stella Prize.

“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, t…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780702263187
ISBN-10:0702263184
Author:Evelyn Araluen
Publisher:University of Queensland Press
Imprint:University of Queensland Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:96
Release Date:1 March 2021
Weight:107g
Dimensions:197mm x 130mm x 10mm
About The Author

Evelyn Araluen

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.

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