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The Rot
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The scorching, much-anticipated new book from the winner of the 2022 Stella Prize for Dropbear. The Rot is a recalcitrant study of the decaying romances, expired hopes, and abject injustices of the world. A liturgy for girlhood in the dying days of late-stage capitalism, these poems...
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Description
The scorching, much-anticipated new book from the winner of the 2022 Stella Prize for Dropbear.
The Rot is a recalcitrant study of the decaying romances, expired hopes, and abject injustices of the world. A liturgy for girlhood in the dying days of late-stage capitalism, these poems expose fraying nerves and tendons of a speaker refusing to avert their gaze from the death of Country, death on Country, and the bloody violence of settler colonies here and afar.
Across sleepless nights, fractured alliances, and self-destructive coping strategies, The Rot is what happens when poetry swallows more rage than it can console, quiet, or ironise—this book demands you ready yourself for a better world.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780702268960
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 November 2025
Country: Australia
Imprint: University of Queensland Press
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 1.0mm
Width: 1.0mm
Height: 1.0mm
Weight: 136g
Pages: 96
About the Author
Evelyn Araluen is a Goorie and Koori poet, editor and researcher. Born and raised on Dharug Country and the broader Western Sydney Black community, she now lives on Wurundjeri Country where she works as a lecturer at the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development, co-editor of Overland Literary Journal and Chairperson for the Board of the Institute of Postcolonial Studies. Her debut poetry collection, Dropbear, won the 2022 Stella Prize and the Australian Book Industry Award's 2022 Small Publisher's Adult Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for premier's awards in New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria. Her work has also been awarded the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers, the Judith Wright Poetry Prize and a Melbourne Prize Career Development Award.
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