by Beautiful Objects: Selected Poems
genre Poetry
Born in Sydney and brought up in Greece, Martin Johnston’s experience of two languages and two cultures led him to produce a body of work that is both very Australian and quintessentially European.
by Other Worlds
genre Poetry
Dorothy Porter’s sixth poetry collection (1997–2001) travels the solar system for comets, distant moons and other heavenly bodies before returning to South America and the Northern Territory and finishing with a selection of commissioned works—including one for the 2000 Sydney Olympics and one for the collection Dick for a Day.
by What a Piece of Work
genre Poetry
Dorothy Porter’s third verse novel deepens her work on Akhenaten and the groundbreaking The Monkey’s Mask with a dark story of sex, death and psychology set in and around Sydney’s iconic asylum Callan Park.
by Wild Surmise
genre Poetry
Dorothy Porter’s fourth verse novel follows the orbits of an astronomer, an astrobiologist and a dying scholar as they move around each other in an unstable conjunction.
by Driving Too Fast
genre Poetry
Dorothy Porter’s fourth poetry collection is an exhilarating ride through passions found, imagined and richly lived.
by Fortinbrasse
genre Poetry · Theatre
Fortinbrasse is the tragedy of Hamlet’s mirror and foil, the Prince of Norway. It supplements the handful of references Shakespeare gives us in Hamlet with further details from his, sources together with my own speculation about the circumstances that eventually lead to Fortinbrasse’s bittersweet arrival at Elsinore at the end of Hamlet.
by Solstice: the Play
genre Poetry · Theatre
Solstice is a play in verse set over the twenty-four hours of the longest day of the year, in Adelaide, South Australia. It is a story of love and exploration told in sonnet form, one verse for each few minutes of the day. It shows how much can change in a day — the whole world, and at the same time nothing at all.
by Equinox
genre Literary Fiction · Poetry
A novel of Sydney, its salt water and sandstone, its glass and steel. A sonnet for each day of the year, following four characters through four seasons as their fortunes rise and fall and their paths cross. The sequel to the award-winning Solstice.
by Solstice
genre Literary Fiction · Poetry
A novel of Adelaide. A sonnet for each few minutes of the summer solstice, the longest day and shortest night of the year. Five characters traverse the city, its suburbs and its beaches in this modern midsummer night’s dream. Shortlisted for the Australian/Vogel award.
