Your Favourites’ Favourites: Tony Birch & Evelyn Araluen

“We are living in an existential but predominantly climactic crisis, and it is one that we cannot imaginatively distance ourself from with utopian thinking,” said Evelyn Araluen in this intellectually rigorous and magnificently poetic discussion with Tony Birch. Together, they discuss Evelyn’s fierce debut, Dropbear – a collection of poetry and prose from one of Australia’s most exciting young writers, described by Declan Fry as “a stunning scalpel wielded through Australian myths” (Guardian Australia) – the project of sovereignty, and creating change through storytelling. 

Supported by Australian Poetry.

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