Evelyn Araluen, Dropbear Crooks and thieves and downright

Crooks and thieves and downright deadbeats — colonial monuments are cooked

Hiroko avoided Western medicine and looked to traditional Japanese remedies and alternative diets to help heal her

where she was born

filtered through Nigerian roots

She is now recognised as a leading fibre artist and participates regularly in group exhibitions in commercial galleries

Evelyn Araluen, Dropbear Crooks and thieves and downrightEvelyn Araluen, Dropbear 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