A Tribute to Dorothy Porter
May 21
In Meanjin (Vol 68/1) poetry editor Judith Beveridge wrote this tribute to Dorothy Porter in our editorial:
Dorothy was one of the most popular and most loved of contemporary Australian writers. She was also highly acclaimed by critics. Two of her verse novels, What a Piece of Work and Wild Surmise, were short-listed for the Miles Franklin Award. Her most recent verse novel, El Dorado, was short-listed for the prestigious Prime Minister’s Award. Dorothy always believed that poetry and poets deserved a wide readership and she set about capturing the minds and hearts of readers with her passionate, ambitious, page-turning books… Those who knew her could attest to her vigour and her distinctive elan. She was gifted with a vibrant sense of humour and a mercurial and zestful imagination. To be in her company was to be in a charmed and charged space.
A special event will run at the Sydney Writers’ Festival, in which peers and friends will remember Porter’s passion for life and poetry through readings of her favourite works: Shakespeare, Auden, Akhmatova, Harwood and many others.
Full details can be found here.
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