The Rot by Evelyn Araluen Health must contend with the death

must contend with the death of her family

critical thinking

leaving behind echoes of everything that has gone before

Simon was right about secrets-they all come out

a literary thriller and a love story

The Rot by Evelyn Araluen Health must contend with the deathPaperback 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