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Evelyn Araluen Evelyn Araluen i(9487761 works by) (a.k.a. Evelyn Araluen Corr)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Bundjalung ; Aboriginal Wiradjuri
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1 Decolonial Research Methodology After the Bogong Moth i "Supplant. Unsettle. Bury. Return.", Evelyn Araluen , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 101 2021;
1 Fern Up Your Own Gully i "Deep in the heart of the forest there’s a", Evelyn Araluen , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 10 no. 2 2021; (p. 9-10)
1 Shelf Reflection : Evelyn Araluen Evelyn Araluen , 2021 single work column
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , March 2021;
1 10 y separately published work icon Dropbear Evelyn Araluen , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2021 20534089 2021 selected work poetry essay

'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.' (Publication summary)
1 Pyro i "THE SOLAR PANELS THAT SUNK US INTO DEBT HAVE", Evelyn Araluen , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 10 no. 1 2020; (p. 125)
1 FOR POWER FOR PRAYER FOR PROMISE FOR PEACE i "IN THE ABSENCE OF POWER, SAY WE WILL NOT FORGET //", Evelyn Araluen , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 10 no. 1 2020; (p. 97)
1 y separately published work icon Overland Health no. 239 Winter Jonathan Dunk (editor), Evelyn Araluen (editor), 2020 20735290 2020 periodical issue

'Health, wellness, well-being, words which resonate with the most basic social questions of how we are toward one another. This year our answers have been drastically rearranged – we care for one another with distance, and forego almost all the habits of flourishing or eudaimonia. Not that it’s ever been simple: our essayists for Overland 239 approach these problems from a wide variety of intersecting experiences and disciplines.' (Publication summary)
1 Too Little, Too Much Evelyn Araluen , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: Fire Front : First Nations Poetry and Power Today 2020; (p. 39-45) Meanjin , Spring vol. 79 no. 3 2020; 'Aboriginal poetics have always existed. Or, at least, they fulfil every sense of always that we have access to: yaburuhma, the kind of eternal that spirals out a constant across time and space; forever, the kind of promise we make to spread between every time. Since the land, since the land made us shape, since the land gave us voice, since we had learned enough to inscribe it back, since we took up tools tossed here by the uninvited. We sing it back as it is sung back to us in every bird song, every branch ache, every wave heave. The form has changed, as have we, but the songlines still hum in the soil while we read and write upon it.' (Introduction)
 
1 Mrs Kookaburra Addresses the Natives i "Humans! Please be kind", Evelyn Araluen , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 9 no. 1 2019; (p. 15-16)
1 The End of the Year and the Lay of the Land Evelyn Araluen , Jonathan Dunk , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , December 2019;
1 Unreckoning i "Sis, I have a ghost story:", Evelyn Araluen , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 1-7 June 2019;
1 Fiction Editorial Evelyn Araluen , Jonathan Dunk , 2019 single work column
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 234 2019; (p. 39)
1 To Outlive a Home : Poetics of a Crumbling Domestic Evelyn Araluen , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 89 2019;
1 Snugglepot and Cuddlepie in the Ghost Gum Evelyn Araluen , 2019 single work prose
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , February 2019;
1 Bahloo i "bahloo", Evelyn Araluen , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry in First Languages 2018-2020;
1 Fern Your Own Gully i "Deep in the heart of the forest there’s a magical world", Evelyn Araluen , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Lifted Brow , December no. 40 2018; (p. 12) Solid Air : Australian and New Zealand Spoken Word 2019; (p. 6-7)
1 1 Dropbear Poetics i "Tiddalik say", Evelyn Araluen , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 230 2018; (p. 31-32) Fire Front : First Nations Poetry and Power Today 2020; (p. 80-81)
1 Guarded by Birds i "When you go", Evelyn Araluen , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 230 2018; (p. 27-28)
1 Finding Ways Home Evelyn Araluen , 2018 single work life story
— Appears in: Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia 2018; (p. 12-15)

'I wasn't a nice kid. I'll be the first to admit that. I was loud and smart-arse, scrappy and scabby, and I didn't sleep. I had eyebrows as thick as your thumb and in the front of my mouth were two rotten front teeth, so I smiled like a carnivorous marsupial. Once I ran my sister over with a bike because I was playing cross-eyed. I mostly ate noodles or crab sticks, and I lived on the dreaded silver detention seats. I was never officially expelled, but true god we all knew it was good that I left when I did.' (Introduction)
1 New Town i "in re new place", Evelyn Araluen , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Tell Me Like You Mean It : New Poems from Young and Emerging Writers 2017;
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