| Description |
104 pages ; 20 cm |
| Contents |
Cover -- Author Biography -- Title Page -- Imprint Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- GATHER -- GATHER -- The Ghost Gum Sequence -- Learning Bundjalung on Tharawal -- SUBURB PARATEXT -- Bastards from the Bar -- Index Australis -- PYRO -- Malay -- Playing in the Pastoral -- Dropbear Poetics -- The Last Endeavour -- SPECTRE -- Acknowledgement of Cuntery -- The Trope Speaks -- Guarded by Birds -- To the Poets -- decolonial poetics (avant gubba) -- Concessions -- Bad Taxidermy -- Bread -- Stutter -- Moving Day -- With Hidden Noise -- Mrs Kookaburra Addresses the Natives -- Hold -- In Fright |
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DEBRIS -- Dirge -- To the Parents -- Wangal Morning -- Home, After the Fire -- The Inevitable Pandemic Poem -- Bahloo -- K1: Yellomundee -- THE INLAND SEA -- Fern Up Your Own Gully -- Boab -- Breath -- FOMO -- Secret River -- Appendix Australis -- Unreckoning -- FOR POWER FOR PRAYER FOR PROMISE FOR PEACE -- See You Tonight -- THE LAST BUSH BALLAD -- Notes -- Acknowledgements |
| Summary |
An innovative collection of poetry and prose from a vibrant new Indigenous voice on the Australian literary scene.'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 |
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Short stories, Australian -- Aboriginal Australian authors
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Australian poetry -- Aboriginal Australian authors.
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Decolonization in literature.
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Poetry -- Aboriginal Australian authors -- 21st century
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Australian poetry -- 21st century
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Literature and stories - Fiction
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Settlement and contacts - Colonisation
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Race relations - Representation - Literature
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History - Cultural
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Cultural protocols
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Literature and stories - Authors - Poetry
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| Genre/Form |
Indigenous collection
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Poetry.
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Essays.
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| ISBN |
9780702263187 (paperback) |
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