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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

First Nations poet Evelyn Araluen has won the 10th annual Stella Prize with a debut poetry collection that confronts the cultural evasions of an unreconciled Australia with a tender fury. Australian ...

Evelyn Araluen’s Dropbear contains one of the best stanzas in “Australian poetry” – “Because to hold him is to hold the tree/ that holds these birds I cannot name,/ and a word spoken here/ might ...