Disaster
for Dr Diane Lightfoot Why is it so fascinating watching disaster’s colonies grow? Some hang before the mouth like clusters of grapes others wriggle like the tempting blips of distant constellations....
View ArticleDeb Matthews-Zott reviews Dorothy Porter
What a Piece of Work by Dorothy Porter Picador, 2000 Dorothy Porter's previous verse novel, The Monkey's Mask, was a huge success – it won The Age Book of the Year for Poetry award, as well as several...
View ArticlePaul Mitchell Interviews Dorothy Porter
For Dorothy Porter, writing librettos is a natural extension of her desire to “open things up” with her poetry; to discover the realms in which it can move. However, renowned as the woman who writes...
View ArticleHeather Taylor Johnson reviews The Best Australian Poems 2006
The Best Australian Poems 2006 edited by Dorothy Porter Black Inc., 2006 I've long been a fan of Dorothy Porter, the poet, and I can now say loudly and proudly that I am a fan of Dorothy Porter, the...
View ArticleVale Dorothy Porter
Peter Minter writes: "The second-last day of winter in 1997 seems so far away now, but today I remember it clearly. After her captivating late afternoon reading, Dorothy Porter and I found a corner in...
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Libby Hart reviews Dorothy Porter
The Bee Hut by Dorothy Porter Black Inc., 2009 The Bee Hut is Dorothy Porter's posthumous volume of poetry and her seventh collection to date, although her agent has indicated there are more books to...
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Jessica Wilkinson Reviews Lisa Jacobson
The verse novel is a peculiar organism: descended from the sweeping epics that chronicled the birth of nations and the misadventures of wayward heroes, we can still find characters struggling on their...
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