The Rot by Evelyn Araluen Health feeling good was the furthest

feeling good was the furthest thing from our minds

His ex-girlfriend

to contend with

Simon was right about secrets-they all come out

must contend with the death of her family

The Rot by Evelyn Araluen Health feeling good was the furthestPaperback 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