she lingers in archives her trace is my memory we labour dig sweat
blister imagine know them more intimately so much work to be done
so much work to clean up this colonial mess
Apron-Sorrow / Sovereign-Tea evokes an embodied reckoning with Aboriginal women's domestic labour and servitude drawing from oral history and the State's official record. It explores the complexity of Aboriginal women's experiences and survival strategies, and intergenerational stories that span loss, love, sorrow, solidarity, resistance, and refusal.
Winner of the Indigenous Writers' Prize in the 2026 New South Wales Literary Awards
Longlisted for the 2026 ALS Gold Medal
Longlisted for the 2026 Stella Prize
Longlisted for the 2026 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award
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Natalie Harkin is a Narungga creative arts-based Research Fellow with the Indigenous Studies team at Flinders University (Adelaide), Kaurna Yerta. She is passionate about archival justice, engaging archival-poetic methods to document community Memory Stories, and Indigenous Living-Legacy archive innovations for our time. Her books include Dirty Words (Cordite Books) and Archival-Poetics (Vagabond Press).
ISBN 9781743059562
CATEGORIES: Aboriginal and Indigenous, History
IMAGES Full colour throughout
PAGE COUNT 224
DIMENSIONS 240 x 170 mm