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1 online resource (104 pages) |
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National edeposit: Available onsite at the National Library of Australia, State Library of Queensland Online access with authorization. AU-CaNED |
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. |
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 |
Awards |
Queensland Literary Awards: Finalist Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection 2021. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Poetry, Modern -- 21st century -- Collections.
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Poetry, Modern. |
Chronological Term |
21st century |
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Australian poetry -- 21st century.
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Australian poetry. |
Chronological Term |
2000-2099 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Collections.
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Poetry.
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Poetry.
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ISBN |
9780702264924 electronic book |
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070226492X electronic book |
Standard No. |
YBP301889987 |
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