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. She was educated at the Queenwood School for Girls, in Sydney.

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)
• El Dorado (2007)

Fiction for Young Adults

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

Libretti (With composer Jonathan Mills)

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

Lyrics

• Before Time Could Change Us (2005), music by Paul Grabowsky, performed by the Paul Grabowsky/Katie Noonan Quintet

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.

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