{"product_id":"monkeys-mask-by-dorothy-porter","title":"'Monkey's Mask' by Dorothy Porter","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"876\" data-end=\"1327\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eStill one of the strangest and most successful crossover books in contemporary Australian writing.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"876\" data-end=\"1327\"\u003ePart detective novel, part lesbian noir, part poetry sequence, it follows private investigator Jill Fitzpatrick as she takes on the case of a missing young woman and gets pulled into a world of obsession, sex, performance, and violence. Porter writes the whole thing in verse, but it moves with the momentum of a thriller — sharp, dirty, funny, and unnervingly elegant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1329\" data-end=\"1693\"\u003eThe poetry is not decorative; it is the engine. Porter takes noir’s usual machinery — desire, risk, glamour, corruption — and rewires it through a specifically Australian, specifically queer sensibility. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1329\" data-end=\"1693\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHyland House, South Melbourne, first edition, 1994; this copy is the 1994 reprint. Paperback original. An early signed Australian copy of Porter’s breakthrough verse novel. The book won the Age Book of the Year for Poetry in 1994, along with the National Book Council Award for Poetry and Braille Book of the Year. In great condition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44325192564819,"sku":null,"price":95.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-03-30T165216.906.png?v=1774849957","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/monkeys-mask-by-dorothy-porter","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}