The Bluebird of Death single work   lyric/song   "You live your life"
Is part of The Freak Songs Dorothy Porter , 2009 sequence lyric/song
Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 The Bluebird of Death
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Notes

  • Author's note: A woman is dressed as a metallically glittering bluebird. Her breasts end in sharp points, each breast like a raptor's beak. She sings with a relaxed, deadly irony.

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    y separately published work icon The Bee Hut Dorothy Porter , Melbourne : Black Inc. , 2009 Z1615366 2009 selected work poetry 'The Bee Hut, [Dorothy Porter's] fifteenth book, brings together the poems she wrote in the last five years of her life. By turns expansive and intimate, effusive and contemplative, these poems roam widely: there are journeys into history and to sacred places both mythic and deeply personal.' (From the publisher's website.) Melbourne : Black Inc. , 2009 pg. 124-126
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