The Rot by Evelyn Araluen Health As Leni grows up in

As Leni grows up in the shadow of her parents’ increasingly volatile marriage

to contend with

As they journey up into this wild

leaving behind echoes of everything that has gone before

His ex-girlfriend

The Rot by Evelyn Araluen Health As Leni grows up inPaperback 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