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How my brave and brilliant sister rocked Australia to its core

The country lost a literary star when poet Dorothy Porter died in 2008, writes her sister in a new memoir.

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The price is fright!

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Pearly prose from the western shoreline

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Nigel’s night on the tiles

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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.
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Celebrating the poetry of jacarandas

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.

How much of the material in Michael Ondaatje’s poems is non-fictional is unclear.

Michael Ondaatje’s latest work is in praise of long love and experience

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.

  • Felicity Plunkett

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