Known for her passionate, sensual and edgy poetry, Dorothy Porter was one of Australia's truly original writers. She was twice short-listed for Australia's premier literary award, the Miles Franklin, and her verse novel The Monkey's is a modern Australian classic.
The Bee Hut, her fifteenth book, brings together the poems she wrote in the last five years of her life. By turns expansive and intimate, effusive and contemplative, these poems roam widely: there are journeys into history and to sacred places both mythic and deeply personal. As Andrea Goldsmith writes in her preface, Porter's writing 'glows and shimmers' with passionate curiosity and exuberant love of life.
Beginnings and Endings
The World Beneath
$32.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
Once Rich and Sandy were environmental activists. Now they have settled into the compromises of middle age. About the only thing they have in common is their daughter, Sophie. When Rich decides to take Sophie on a walk into the... Buy or find out more→
Hollywood Ending
$32.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
Hilda and Benji have an obsessive hobby: they haunt the places where Hollywood celebrities have died. In Echo Park they find the apartment where a silent movie star stabbed himself to death. Its current tenant is Hank, an old man... Buy or find out more→
Bee Hut
$24.95 – Paperback / Black Inc.
Known for her passionate, sensual and edgy poetry, Dorothy Porter was one of Australia's truly original writers. She was twice short-listed for Australia's premier literary award, the Miles Franklin, and her verse novel The... Buy or find out more→
