\'I wonder if some of the most deeply passionate experiences of my life have happened between the covers of a book\' A wonderful, ultimately joyous, insight into the creative life of one of our best loved poets.
On Passion was completed just before her death in December 2008..
She has written libretti and song lyrics and seven volumes of poetry, most recently The Bee Hut .
Her other verse novels include Wild Surmise and What a Piece of Work , both short-listed for the Miles Franklin Award, Akhenaten and El Dorado.
About author(s): Dorothy Porter \'s award-winning crime thriller in verse, The Monkey\'s Mask , has become a modern Australian classic.
Written just before she passed away in 2008, ON Passion is a wonderful, ultimately joyous, insight into the creative life of one of our best loved poets.
We discover the young Dorothy Porter \'s \'drug of choice\' was none other than romantic love and that \'some of the most deeply passionate experiences of [her] life happened between the covers of a book\'.
In ON Passion celebrated Australian poet Dorothy Porter delves headfirst into the passions, both literary and earthly. \'I wonder if some of the most deeply passionate experiences of my life have happened between the covers of a book\' A wonderful, ultimately joyous, insight into the creative life of one of our best loved poets
