Dorothy Porter
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Dorothy Porter (b.1954) grew up in Sydney and the Blue Mountains but is now living in Melbourne. She is the author of six collections of poetry, two novels for young adults, and three previous verse novels, Akhenaten, The Monkey’s Mask and What a Piece of Work. Dorothy’s verse novel Wild Surmise, published by Picador in 2002, was given the Adelaide Festival Awards 2004 John Bray Memorial Prize for Poetry as well as the overall Premier’s Award — the first book of poetry ever to be awarded this prize. Dorothy Porter was awarded the FAW Christopher Brennan Award for 2001.
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Biography (below)
Dorothy Porter: A selection of poems: The Bee Hut / Ode to Agatha Christie / The Hampstead Heath Toad / The Ninth Hour
Lucidity: The Poetry of Making Sense — Burning lines: the 2001 Australian Poetry Festival Judith Wright Memorial lecture: 8 April 2001 Balmain Town Hall (3,000 words or about seven printed pages long.)
Letter from Bundanon: first published in Australian Book Review 2002 (750 words or about two printed pages long.)
The Verse Novel and I: a revised version of a piece written for a panel on verse novels at the Sydney Writers’ Festival May 2004 (500 words or about two printed pages long.)
Dorothy Porter (b.1954) grew up in Sydney and the Blue Mountains but is now living in Melbourne. She is the author of six collections of poetry including Driving Too Fast, Crete and Other Worlds; two novels for young adults; and three previous verse novels, Akhenaten, The Monkey’s Mask and What a Piece of Work. The Monkey’s Mask won the Age Book of the Year for Poetry, the National Book Council Award for Poetry and the Braille Book of the Year. It has been adapted for stage and radio, and the film was released internationally in 2001. The book has been widely translated and published overseas. What a Piece of Work was short-listed for the Miles Franklin Award in 2000, was a successful stage play, and is currently being adapted for the screen. Dorothy has written two libretti — The Ghost Wife and The Eternity Man — with the composer Jonathan Mills. In 2003 The Eternity Man had its international premiere in London and was one of the joint winners of the inaugural Genesis Prize for opera. She is currently working with the jazz composer, Paul Grabowsky, on a song cycle, Before Time Could Change Us, to be released in 2004. Dorothy’s latest work, the verse novel Wild Surmise, published by Picador in 2002 was short-listed for the Miles Franklin award in 2003. Wild Surmise was given the Adelaide Festival Awards 2004 John Bray Memorial Prize for Poetry as well as the overall Premier’s Award — the first book of poetry ever to be awarded this prize. Dorothy Porter was awarded the FAW Christopher Brennan Award for 2001. A CD Before Time Could Change Us (lyrics by Dorothy Porter) with Paul Grabowsky and Katie Noonan was launched in August 2005 by Warner Records.
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