Evelyn Araluen: Dropbear

Where

When

Friday, 12 Mar 2021, 05:30pm - 07:00pm

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

Featuring

Evelyn Araluen

Evelyn Araluen is a poet, researcher and co-editor of Overland literary journal. Her widely published criticism, fiction and poetry have 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 Li... Read more

@evelynaraluen

Jeanine Leane

Jeanine Leane is a Wiradjuri writer, teacher and academic from southwest New South Wales. After a long teaching career, she completed a doctorate in Australian literature and Aboriginal representation and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Australian Centre for Indigenous History at the Australian Nat... Read more

@JeanineLeane

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 c... Read more

@Melody_Paloma_

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.

@jonathandunk