Description 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 w.
Monash University Publishing Shelf life of zora cross, paperback/cathy perkins
