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The Rot 2025
The Rot is a 2025 poetry and prose collection by Evelyn Araluen, an Aboriginal Australian poet from the Bundjalung people. Published by University of Queensland Press, it won the 2026 Victorian Prize for Literature and the 2026 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards – Indigenous Writing award. It also received the ABIA 2026 Small Publishers' Adult Book of the Year. The work was shortlisted for the 2026 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry and the 2026 Stella Prize, among other recognitions.
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- Publisher
- University of Queensland Press
- ISBN
- 9780702268960





