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zoe_'s review against another edition
I didn’t like it but I also 100% didn’t get it. I‘m convinced that I missed if not every single then most of the cultural references that I would have needed to know about in order to understand what was going on. Honestly, with how much I missed, I don’t want to criticise the book any more than saying that it wasn’t my cup of tea (not just because I didn’t get it but also because the style was just not „for ne“) because it wasn’t meant to be. Araluen isn’t here to explain anything and she doesn’t need to be.
raviii's review against another edition
4.0
I told you this was a thirst so great it could carve rivers.
Under and over the silence and clunky chains of the colonising language, there is speaking in the rustle of leaf and call of bird. These are the words the land knows, for it made them in the cradles of country, in the salt and sand of sound.
The world is sick with empty words.
I want to know what it means to lose the world you're still standing in.
Under and over the silence and clunky chains of the colonising language, there is speaking in the rustle of leaf and call of bird. These are the words the land knows, for it made them in the cradles of country, in the salt and sand of sound.
The world is sick with empty words.
I want to know what it means to lose the world you're still standing in.
emreadsbooksagain's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
inspiring
tense
fast-paced
4.0
This is a fierce collection of poems and essays by Evelyn Araluen. She notes that "our resistance, therefore, must also be literary" and Dropbear is just that. Her writing is powerful, smart and evocative. The poems conjure time and place and raw emotions. She also unpacks lots of tropes, attitudes and literary colonialism as a product of invasion, and thus her writing is piercing light and fire to those very things. Can't wait to read her next collection
laylaloveslimes's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
slow-paced
5.0
thelonelycastle's review against another edition
4.75
An absolutely beautiful collection of poetry. The power Araluen conveys through her writing is unmatched. This is a collection anyone and everyone should read at least once in their lives.
melsiewelsie's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
reflective
tense
fast-paced
3.75