Peter Porter

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Peter Porter arrived in Britain fifty years ago and has lived here ever since. Since 1974, he has visited his native Australia often and considers himself part of the present-day poetical worlds of both nations. Since 1968 he has been a freelance literary journalist and reviewer. He has published seventeen books of poems, plus four further volumes with the Australian painter Arthur Boyd. He has been married twice and has, with his second wife, nine grandchildren.

Mike Grady

Peter Porter obituary

Posted By Mike Grady on Tuesday 4th May 2010
 

Peter Porter, the award-winning poet, has died of cancer at the age of 81.

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Peter Porter

We do Not Write the Way We Are

Posted By Peter Porter on Thursday 22nd Apr 2010
 

My Mother was more a Small Investor
than she was Queen Clytemnestra
but she bought me shares in dreams,
in doing not what is, but seems -
you start out rhyming, she declared,
but go your own way into dread
with bed sores and bad words.

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