Review: The Monkey's Mask
User Review - Trevor - GoodreadsI preferred to read the poetry in this as prose that had been chopped up funny – and that was fairly easy to do as the poetry was so light and insubstantial that it might as well have been prose most ... Read full review
Review: The Monkey's Mask
User Review - gwscrsc - GoodreadsRemember when they brought out films in Sensurround and Smell-o-vision? You didn't really go to see the film for the plot now, didja? Writing a bog standard noir novel in verse is a little like that. Read full review
Review: The Monkey's Mask
User Review - Wayne Spiceland - GoodreadsA murder mystery cum feminist polemic in verse? Huh? Well, that's what I asked myself *before* I read it. Sounds pretentious, yeah? Afterward? It's amazing just how well it works. Okay, we're not ... Read full review
Review: The Monkey's Mask
User Review - Siah Bangai - GoodreadsI read this as part of my research into epics and/or verse novels. It definitely wasn't an epic. I admit to being a bit lost by the ending. The main character, a private detective, is roaming around ... Read full review
Review: The Monkey's Mask
User Review - Ben Eldridge - GoodreadsA coherent, if underwhelming, noir narrative told entirely through poetry. The sparseness of the (sometimes not very good) poetry works against fleshing out the stringy plot, and apart from the ... Read full review
Review: The Monkey's Mask
User Review - Kristie - GoodreadsPerfection. Poetic beauty and in a popular detective fiction storyline. I recommend this book to everyone because a lot of people are pleasantly surprised and I have had such good feedback. Porter worked magic with her simple free verse and is a great loss to the Australian poetry field. Read full review
Review: The Monkey's Mask
User Review - Jennifer Mcbain - GoodreadsWonderfully fabulous. Read full review
Review: The Monkey's Mask
User Review - Addie Lansdown - GoodreadsImpressively composed with some striking images but overall underwhelming Read full review
Review: The Monkey's Mask
User Review - Katrina - GoodreadsI love murder mysteries but this was a real surprise- a literary treasure as well. The whole book is a poem and tells a noir tale of mystery with an interesting lesbian investigator. Worth a read and I'm glad it is on my shelves as I am sure I will want a re read Read full review
Review: The Monkey's Mask
User Review - Timothy Munro - GoodreadsA surprising, page-turning triumph. I didn't know what to expect, but somehow the concision, occasional obfuscations and dreamlike perfume of her poetry captured the noirish nature of a crime thriller perfectly. Who'd have predicted it? Read full review
