Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen

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'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 na tion 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. Show more