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Evelyn Araluen

Evelyn Araluen is a poet, researcher and educator working with Indigenous literatures at the University of Sydney. She has been awarded the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers, the Judith Wright Poetry Prize, and a Wheeler Centre Next Chapter fellowship. Born, raised, and writing on Dharug country, she is a descendant of the Bundjalung nation.

To Outlive a Home: Poetics of a Crumbling Domestic 

Posted on February 1, 2019 by Evelyn Araluen

While these pre-federation tropes of settler colonial Australia’s multifaceted and at times contradictory pastoral modes seem to recognise something of their incompatibility with Aboriginal land, they seek their resolution from burial, rather than reciprocal encounter with Aboriginal presence.

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Wangal Morning

Posted on June 18, 2017 by Evelyn Araluen

sounds almost mute like earth like blood then heat move in shadows slow given back light measure the measureless once more around time fracture sound half sigh fill sky gather old light from other place when we, new muted you, …

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New Town

Posted on June 18, 2017 by Evelyn Araluen

in re new place we, facing (one) another the sound of her is almost between us: a foot of hair grown and lost the skin of two summers so much rhythm still crashing from the wars never thought day and …

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decolonial poetics (avant gubba)

Posted on February 1, 2017 by Evelyn Araluen

when my body is mine i will tell them with my belly&bones do not touch the de or let your hands burn black with your unsettlement there are no metaphors here when i own my tongue i will sing with …

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