Dorothy Porter

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Dorothy Porter (born 1954) is an Australian poet. Her awards include The Age Book of the Year for Poetry, the National Book Council Award for The Monkey's Mask and the FAW Christopher Brennan Award for Poetry. Two of her verse novels have been shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award: What a Piece of Work in 2000 and Wild Surmise in 2003.

[edit] Bibliography

Poetry Collections

• Little Hoodlum (1975)
• Bison (1979)
• The Night Parrot (1984)
• Driving too Fast (1989)
• Crete (1996)
• Other Worlds: Poems 1997-2001 (2001)
• Poems January-August 2004 (2004)

Verse Novels

• Akhenaten (1991)
• The Monkey’s Mask (1994)
• What a Piece of Work (1999)
• Wild Surmise (2002)

Libretti (With composer Jonathan Mills)

• The Ghost Wife (2000)
• The Eternity Man (2005)

Fiction for Young Adults

• Rookwood (1991)
• The Witch Number (1993)

[edit] External links

• Poetry’s Like Sex! You Can’t Fake It Interview
• Australian Literature Resources website. Contains information on many Australian writers, including Porter.
• Dorothy Porter at the Poetry International Website.