Jazz

Dropbear Lodge

Artfully hiding in the shadows of Australian folklore under shrouds of the gum trees, The Dropbear (Thylarctos Plummetus) are typically solitary hunters who move in secrecy with the oblivious, the ...
Sydney Morning Herald

Dropbear essentials: Indigenous poet Evelyn Araluen’s debut collection simmers with rage

I’m not usually a poetry reader; something to do with my year 8 English class taking it in turns to read aloud and absolutely butchering Edgar Allen Poe’s The Raven, I think. But now I work in a ...
Jazz

Vicious Twee

Pangolin vs Concrete; Manus; The Good, The Bad, and the Fugly; Pew (Watercleaner; Vicious Twee; 2:3 2:3 (The Rhumba of the Beast); Impending Artfully hiding in the shadows of Australian folklore under ...
The Conversation

First Nations poet Evelyn Araluen wins the 2022 Stella Prize with a ‘wild ride’ skewering colonial mythologies

University of Notre Dame Australia provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. First Nations poet Evelyn Araluen has won the 10th annual Stella Prize with a debut poetry collection that ...
The Guardian

Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen review – a stunning scalpel wielded through Australian myths

Araluen’s first collection repurposes Biblical themes, Australiana kitsch and settler-colonial tropes to astonishing effect Some 200 years after invasion, in 1991, a vision of Australia was offered by ...