The Bee Hut

Poems 2001-2008

By: Dorothy Porter, Andrea Goldsmith (Foreword by)

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Paperback | 1 July 2021

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160 Pages

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21.59 x 13.97 x 0.86

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Shortlisted for the 2010 Colin Roderick Award

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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 fi ve 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.

from' Caesarea
Sometimes a new place
has the ferocity of a gale
ripping the calm
off a safe harbour
making the drowned bells peel
Hallelujah
for all your future
false prophets
and glorious. glorious.
lost gods.

'(Dorothy 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.' -The Times

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