The Best 100 Poems of Dorothy Porter

<h3><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Whether stretching the fabric of ancient mythology discovering the beauty of the natural world or inking an intimate message on the heart Porter's verse is endlessly captivating. This is an essential volume for longtime admirers and newcomers alike.</span></h3><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Dorothy Porter was one of Australia's true originals renowned for her passionate punchy poetry and verse novels.This collection the best of her life's work as selected by her partner Andrea Goldsmith presents the many facets of Porter from her break-out verse novel </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>The Monkey's Mask</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> to her posthumous collection </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>The Bee Hut</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Whether stretching the fabric of ancient mythology discovering the beauty of the natural world or inking an intimate message on the heart Porter's verse is endlessly captivating.This is an essential volume for longtime admirers and newcomers alike.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>'It's hard not to be uplifted by this writing and this woman.' </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)><em>The Courier-Mail</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>' Porter's poems are short powerful beautiful and sometimes brutal. Each poem is a portrait a sensation a short story a joke or a reflection in itself.' </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)><em>The Times</em></strong></p>