Dropbear

'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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Queensland Pr (Australia)
Published: 05/07/2024
ISBN: 9780702263187
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.65h x 5.05w x 0.48d