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Dorothy Porter


Born
in Sydney, Australia
March 26, 1954

Died
December 10, 2008

Genre
Poetry, Literature & Fiction


Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.

Eminent Australian poet. A rare proponent of the verse novel. Winner of The Age Book of the Year for poetry, and the National Book Council Award, for her verse novel The Monkey's Mask. She was awarded the Christopher Brennan Award for lifetime achievement in poetry in 2001. Died of breast cancer, 2008. ...more

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Average rating: 3.85 · 2,666 ratings · 304 reviews · 41 distinct works • Similar authors
The Monkey's Mask
3.84 avg rating — 1,585 ratings — published 1995 — 17 editions
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El Dorado
3.89 avg rating — 193 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions
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The Bee Hut
3.88 avg rating — 178 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions
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Akhenaten
3.69 avg rating — 154 ratings — published 1992 — 8 editions
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Wild Surmise
4.06 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions
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What a Piece of Work
3.73 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions
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Love Poems
4.29 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions
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Crete
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The Best 100 Poems of Dorot...
3.98 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions
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On Passion (Little Books on...
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“he smiles as thinly
as packet soup”
― Dorothy Porter, The Monkey's Mask
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“in the sweet green cold London
spring
I watch a tall grey heron
stomping down its reed nest
that's sprouting everywhere
like garden-sheared hair

and all my living
and all my dead
run up my arms
like squirrels.”
― Dorothy Porter
tags: dead, herons, living, memories, nature, poem, poetry, squirrels
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