Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Friday 12 March
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
'I told you this was a thirst so great it could carve rivers.'
Award-winning poet Evelyn Araluen’s fierce debut poetry collection, Dropbear, confronts the tropes and iconography of an unreconciled nation with biting satire and lyrical fury. Araluen offers an eloquent witness to the entangled present, an uncompromising provocation of history, and an embattled but redemptive hope for a decolonial future.
Join us at MPavilion Parkade to celebrate this innovative collection of poetry and prose from a vibrant new Indigenous voice on the Australian literary scene, with creative readings and poetic responses from Araluen, Jeanine Leane and Melody Paloma. Hosted by Jonathan Dunk.
Drinks will be available for purchase.
Presented in partnership with MPavilion
The bookseller for this event will be Paperback Bookshop.
Featuring
Evelyn Araluen
Evelyn Araluen is a Goorie and Koori poet, researcher, and co-editor of Overland Literary Journal.
Jeanine Leane
Jeanine Leane belongs to the Wiradjuri people from the Murrumbidgee River in south west NSW. She is a writer poet and teacher whose prose, essays and poetry have been published widely in Australia and abroad. She is the editor ...
Melody Paloma
Melody Paloma is a poet, critic and UNSW MFA candidate, currently living in Naarm. She is the author of In Some Ways Dingo (Rabbit, 2017), and, with Elena Gomez, Leah Muddle, Ella O’Keefe, Emily Stewart and Sian Vate, co-author of It’s What We’re Already Doing (Shower Books, 2018).
Over the course of 2018 she produced Some Days, a durational chapbook-length work published by Stale Objects dePress and performed with Liquid Architecture.
Jonathan Dunk
Jonathan Dunk is the co-editor of Overland literary journal, and the recipient of the AD Hope prize and the Dal Stivens award.