Evelyn Araluen, Dropbear Crooks and thieves and downright

Crooks and thieves and downright deadbeats — colonial monuments are cooked

valuable blooms that grow in dank and secluded places

Excerpt from interview between Xu Jing and Jana Hawkins-Andersen in 2021

She is not in the race to win and she is not in the race to lose either

Evelyn Araluen, Dropbear Crooks and thieves and downrightEvelyn Araluen, Dropbear 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