Dropbear (book)

Dropbear is a 2021 collection of poetry and prose by Evelyn Araluen, an Aboriginal poet of the Bundjalung people. Dropbear was published by University of Queensland Press in 2021 and was the winner of the 2022 Stella Prize. The book was also shortlisted for awards at the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards and the Queensland Literary Awards. The collection has been described as part of the Indigenous "literary resistance", with Jeanine Leane writing in the Sydney Review of Books that the work "unsettles settler Australia consciousness with power and precision, leaving no colonial tropes or settler platitudes unchallenged or unscathed".