Lisa Gorton

Lisa Gorton is a poet whose first collection Press Release won the Victorian Premier’s Award for Poetry; she is the author of Cloudland, a novel for children, and an essayist and reviewer. Her latest novel is The Life of Houses (2015).

Works By Lisa Gorton

Aesop’s Fox
These stories are written in what might be called the deliberately unambitious style of contemporary realism. What is original in them is their structure: they work like fables, though they have a novel’s pacing. They are set in London, Wollongong...
12 Aug. 2020
The Hunted Months: The Little Hotel by Christina Stead
‘How could such a book have fallen out of print? In this little hotel’s self-closed world, with its closed-in days, Stead analyses the legacy of the war, Cold War attitudes, and the rise of international money laundering and tax evasion: forces of...
22 Sept. 2016
Philip Hodgins: Mettle
Philip Hodgins’ poetry is alive with strange images, jolts of perception, sudden beautiful cadences. And his poetry is frightening. I mean not supernatural fear but the intimate animal fear we have for our own bodies, the fear of pain and the fear...
16 June. 2015
Precarious images: Cumulus: Collected Poems by Robert Gray
Leaving home, returning home, catching trains and ferries, watching the weather from the window of a hospital or hotel room, renewal and self-betrayal: these are the starting places of Gray’s poetry.
11 Mar. 2013

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Lisa Gorton

Works By Lisa Gorton

Aesop’s Fox

The Hunted Months: The Little Hotel by Christina Stead

Philip Hodgins: Mettle

Precarious images: Cumulus: Collected Poems by Robert Gray

Works Featuring Lisa Gorton

'I think I know that smile'

Uncrushed Local Thought

Inhabiting Spirits: The Life of Houses by Lisa Gorton

Haunted rooms: Hotel Hyperion by Lisa Gorton