LibGuides: English: Dropbear

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Books in the Library

Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen
Call Number: A821 ARA
Guwayu - for all times : a collection of first nations poems by Jeanine Leane
Call Number: A821 GUW
Living on Stolen Land by Amberlin Kwaymullina
Call Number: A821 KWA
Nganajungu Yagu by Charmaine Papertalk Green
Call Number: A821 PAP
Smoke Encrypted Whispers by Samuel Wagan Watson
Call Number: A821 WAG
ISBN: 9780702234712

Videos

Podcasts

Myths, icons, and a Blak literary canon
Writer Evelyn Araluen takes down icons and explodes tropes of mythic Australianness in her debut collection Dropbear in this episode of ABC podcast Awaye.
Evelyn Araluen on Dropbear
The Garret is a podcast about writers and the publishing industry. This episode has Evelyn discussing her poetry collection Dropbear.

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. Evelyn’s debut collection Dropbear was shortlisted for the 2021 Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection and the 2022 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, and won the 2022 Stella Prize. It was Highly Commended for the 2021 Anne Elder Award.

Source: Evelyn Araluen. (2023, May 19). The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved October 18, 2023 from https://www.wheelercentre.com/people/evelyn-araluen/

Useful Weblinks

Book Launch Speeches for Dropbear
"Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen was officially launched in Melbourne on 12th March, in partnership with The Wheeler Centre and MPavilion. Associate Professor Jeanine Leane launched the collection alongside poet Melody Paloma and Jonathan Dunk, co-editor of Overland. Here, Jonathan shares his powerful speech"
Dropbear Review
"Multiple modes and literary disciplines weave through Evelyn Araleun’s first collection Dropbear, shifting between poetry, prose, micro-fiction and essay seamlessly. The taut threads are a reflection of her interdisciplinary work where writing and social justice intersect."
Evelyn Araluen’s poetry that can teach us all
"Dropbear is a book-work of incredible depth and complexity – complex in its structure, and also complex in its thinking".
Rupturing Colonial Kitsch, Untangling Myth
"In Dropbear we find the locus of colonialism not in some outwardly violent figurehead, but in the national myths and sentiments that permeate everyday life in so-called Australia, in the ‘cute gags’ and insidious, kitschy displays of ‘Aussie values’ fundamental to settler nativism."
Staring Back: Jeanine Leane on Evelyn Araluen
"Dropbear is blunt, biting and beautifully crafted. Although it is those things, it is more than the sum of those things. It’s a radical and timely affront to the history, the myths, the gossip and the stereotypes that still confront us all as the Country’s First Peoples."
Stella Prize: about the author and about the book
"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."