Akhenaten by Dorothy Porter Review

Akhenaten by Dorothy Porter Review

Akhenaten by Dorothy Porter, University of Queensland Press, 1992 Reprinted 2008 Pan Macmillan Australia. $24.95 AUD RRP. I love Dorothy Porter. I own all of her verse novels except for Wild Surmise (It is only a matter of time, only a matter of time). I…

Novels in Verse 2013 Reading Challenge

Novels in Verse 2013 Reading Challenge

http://bornbookish.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/novels-in-verse-reading-challenge-sign.html?spref=tw I am signing up for Haiku (reading and reviewing 1-4 verse novels). I haven’t had the chance to read a lot of verse novels before, but the ones I have read I have liked. Especially the ones by Dorothy Porter. I am open to verse…

VERSEDAY #1 – THE CYBIL NOMINEES FOR POETRY

VERSEDAY #1 – THE CYBIL NOMINEES FOR POETRY

A great opportunity for readers to embrace modern poetry, find new mediums and collect some goodies!

Book Review: Song of the Sparrow (2007)

Book Review: Song of the Sparrow (2007)

Song of the Sparrow by Lisa Ann Sandell is a difficult book for me to review. A revisionist retelling of Elaine of Ascolat, which aims, much like Marion Zimmer Bradley did with The Mists of Avalon, to put the women of Arthurian legend at feminist…