The country lost a literary star when poet Dorothy Porter died in 2008,writes her sister in a new memoir.
Overall,it’s a bit of a dampener.
And the resolution is blurry.
And a volunteer with great appeal.
It’s all fun and games until someone loses an i.
Even if it means going out on a limb.
As long as the fatherly kickbacks keep coming.
It meant the world.
Danebank Anglican School for Girls in Hurstville contributed poems to the Herald's poetry prize which they wrote under the school's jacaranda tree. Near the tree,they threw small bits of purple paper into the air to emulate the flowers of the jacaranda floating to the ground.
The writer’s first collection of poetry in more than 25 years replaces the idea of ageing as diminution with a blazing and sensual testament to what is held close.