Gutsy Girls: Love, poetry and sisterhood
University of Queensland Press, $34.99 pb, 280 pp
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Hiss and spray
I lament hearing the late poet Dorothy Porter (1954–2008) read in public only once, having devoured her work voraciously over the years. In the National Portrait Gallery, I once came across Rick Amor’s smallish 2002 portrait of Porter, which shows candid brown eyes framed by hawkish eyebrows inherited from her renowned barrister father, Chester Porter. ‘Chester Porter walks on water’ was her father’s vainglorious self-descriptor when he wasn’t monikered as ‘The Smiling Funnel-web’ at the bar (see Chester Porter, Walking On Water: A life in the law, 2003).
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Gutsy Girls: Love, poetry and sisterhood
by Josie McSkimming
University of Queensland Press, $34.99 pb, 280 pp
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