Dropbear

De: Evelyn Araluen

Narrado por: Madeleine Madden

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.

©2021 Evelyn Araluen (P)2024 Bolinda Publishing

Reseñas de la Crítica

‘Dropbear is a remarkable work. The poems spark with energy and life. Araluen's is a dynamic voice that demands to be heard.’ (Tony Birch, bestselling author of The White Girl)

'Dropbear is a breathtaking collection of poetry and short prose which arrests key icons of mainstream Australian culture and turns them inside out, with malice aforethought. Araluen's brilliance sizzles.' (Judge's comments, The Stella Prize)

'Dropbear is an eloquent and powerful mix of poetry and essay imbued with redemption that needs to be experienced.' (Aniko Press)

'A remarkable collection; smart, thoughtful and articulate.' (The AU Review.com)

'Dropbear is a living testimony to the power of words in the minds and hands of First Nations poets, activists and scholars as the works within this book speak beyond the surface to a deeper time and to bigger issues of unfinished business ... a work of agency and radicalism.' (Sydney Review of Books)