Evelyn Araluen, The Rot Title: Meditation Koala Pot Head

Title: Meditation Koala Pot Head

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Evelyn Araluen, The Rot Title: Meditation Koala Pot HeadEvelyn Araluen, The Rot ISBN 9780702268960 Binding Paperback Pages 144 Release Date 4 11 2025 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