Grim, funny and unremitting, Evelyn Araluen’s The Rot is a book attuned to dark times
- Written by Thomas H. Ford, Senior Lecturer in English, La Trobe University
Caliban, Stephano and Trinculo dancing in a scene from Shakespeare's The Tempest – Johann Heinrich Ramberg.Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons“Girly, there’s something rotten in your keep cup,” Evelyn Araluen writes in Girl Work!, a poem in her new collection, The Rot.
We are trailing after a young female Hamlet figure, a...
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