POETRY READING – selected works by Evelyn Araluen and Jonathan Dunk

3—4 pm Sunday 14 November
Installation view, This is a poem, Buxton Contemporary, The University of Melbourne, 9 July–7 November 2021, with (front to back) Simryn Gill, Throwback 2007 (detail); Simryn Gill, 6 Ivanhoe Street, Marrickville (Maria's Garden) 2021, photography Christian Capurro

Join live poetry readings in the galleries by Evelyn Araluen and Jonathan Dunk, celebrated poets and co-editors of the literary journal Overland.

Evelyn and Jonathan will present a selection of poems that correspond with themes including relationship to Country, settler colonialism, and notions of decay and haunting.

Evelyn Araluen is a poet, educator and researcher, and co-editor of Overland. Her work has won the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers, the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize, and a Wheeler Centre Next Chapter Fellowship. Her debut poetry collection Dropbear was published by UQP in 2021. Born, raised, and writing in Dharug country, she is a descendant of the Bundjalung nation.

Jonathan Dunk is the co-editor of Overland and a widely published writer. He has received the AD Hope prize and the Dal Stivens Award; lectures at Deakin University, and lives on Wurundjeri country.

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Buxton Contemporary acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the unceded land on which we work, learn and create, the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong peoples, and the wider Kulin Nations. We acknowledge their continuing care for Country and recognise that Australia’s First Peoples art and cultural practices have thrived here for millenia.