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The Rot

Evelyn Araluen
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Winner of the 2026 Victorian Prize for Literature
Winner of the 2026 VPLA Prize for Indigenous Writing
Winner of the 2026 ABIA Award for Small Publishers' Adult Book of the Year
Shortlisted for the 2026 Stella Prize

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 colonies here and afar.

Across sleepless nights, fractured alliances and self-destructive coping strategies, The Rot is what happens when poetry swallows more rage than it can console, quiet or ironise – this book demands you ready yourself for a better world.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of Queensland Press
Country
Australia
Date
4 November 2025
Pages
144
ISBN
9780702268960

Winner of the 2026 Victorian Prize for Literature
Winner of the 2026 VPLA Prize for Indigenous Writing
Winner of the 2026 ABIA Award for Small Publishers' Adult Book of the Year
Shortlisted for the 2026 Stella Prize

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 colonies here and afar.

Across sleepless nights, fractured alliances and self-destructive coping strategies, The Rot is what happens when poetry swallows more rage than it can console, quiet or ironise – this book demands you ready yourself for a better world.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of Queensland Press
Country
Australia
Date
4 November 2025
Pages
144
ISBN
9780702268960

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