Cover art for The Rot
Published
University Of Queensland Press, November 2025
ISBN
9780702268960
Format
Softcover, 96 pages
Dimensions
0.1cm × 0.1cm × 0.1cm

The Rot

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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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