The Shelf Life of Zora Cross

Name: The Shelf Life of Zora Cross
Brand: Monash University Publishing
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Written by Cathy Perkins

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Australian poet and journalist Zora Cross caused a sensation in 1917 with her book Songs of Love and Life. Here was a young woman who looked like a Sunday school teacher, celebrating sexual passion in a provocative series of sonnets. She was hailed as a genius, and many expected her to endure as a household name alongside Shakespeare and Rossetti. While Cross’s fame didn’t last, she kept writing through financial hardship, personal tragedies and two world wars, producing an impressive body of work. Her verse, prose and correspondence with the likes of Ethel Turner, George Robertson (of Angus & Robertson) and Mary Gilmore place Zora Cross among the key personalities of Australia’s literary world in the early twentieth century. The Shelf Life of Zora Cross reveals the life of a neglected writer and intriguing person.

Cathy Perkins edits the award-winning SL magazine and other publications at the State Library of New South Wales. She has worked as a book editor, in a bookshop, and for the Australian Society of Authors. Her essays on Zora Cross have been published in Meanjin.

ISBN-13: 9781925835533
Publisher: Monash University Publishing
Imprint: Monash University Publishing
Publication date: 1 November 2019
Format: Paperback
Pages: 312
Dimensions: 234 x 153 mm
Language: English