The Rot by Evelyn Araluen Health leaving behind echoes of everything

leaving behind echoes of everything that has gone before

Simon was right about secrets-they all come out

to contend with

critical thinking

As they journey up into this wild

The Rot by Evelyn Araluen Health leaving behind echoes of everythingPaperback The scorching, much anticipated new book from the winner of the 2022 Stella Prize for Dropbear. The Rot is a recalcitrant study of the decaying romances, expired hopes and abject injustices of the world. A liturgy for girlhood in the dying days of late stage capitalism, these poems expose fraying nerves and tendons of a speaker refusing to avert their gaze from the death of Country, death on Country, and the bloody violence of settler