Indigenous literature, poetics and decolonisation

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Indigenous literature, poetics and decolonisation

Poetry reading and discussion with award-winning Australian poets, researchers and educators, Evelyn Araluen Corr and Jonathan Dunk. Presented by the Research Centre for the Environmental Humanities, the MA in Creative Writing and the Bath Spa University Poetry Hub.

About the speakers

Award-winning poets Evelyn Araluen Corr and Jonathan Dunk have recently completed doctorates at the University of Sydney, where they teach in literary studies.

Evelyn is a descendent of the Bundjalung nation, and she was born and raised in the Dharug community of Western Sydney, with ties to other Indigenous nations throughout New South Wales. She is inspired by the many Indigenous writers, philosophers, poets, activists, and leaders who have come before her and is committed to doing justice to the legacy they have provided. She coordinates Black Rhymes Aboriginal Poetry Night in Redfern, which creates a space and opportunity for Aboriginal people to share their poetry and expressions, and has judged national prizes of fiction and poetry. Her own poetry has been published in Cordite, Overland, Australian Poetry Journal, Rabbit Poetry Journal, Peril, and more, and she is the winner of the 2018 Judith Wright Poetry Prize and the 2017 Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers. Her first poetry collection, Dropbear, is due to be released in 2020.

Jonathan's scholarship, fiction and poetry have been published in Meanjin, JASAL, Southerly, Plumwood Mountain: An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics, the Australian Book Review, Cordite, and Australian Poetry. His writing has been shortlisted for the Overland Victoria University prize, and he was awarded the 2017 A.D. Hope Poetry Prize.

In August 2019, Jonathan and Evelyn were appointed as co-editors of the major Australian literary journal, Overland.