The $50,000 Stella Prize has been was awarded to Evelyn Araluen for her debut collection of poetry and prose Dropbear. With 2022 marking the first year that poetry publications have been eligible for the Stella Prize, it is particularly significant that Dropbear has been selected as the most original, arresting, and engaging work by an Australian woman or non-binary writer.
Dropbear has been described as:
"Confronting 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".
You can check out Dropbear in our collection.
For more information see the Stella Prize website.
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