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Peter Neville Frederick Porter OAM (16 February 1929 – 23 April 2010) was a British-based Australian poet. Life. Porter was born in Brisbane, Australia, in 1929. His mother, Marion, died of a burst gall-bladder in 1938.
Australian-born poet Peter Porter moved to England in 1951. He is the author of more than 15 collections of poetry, and the editor and translator of several more, including Once Bitten, Twice Bitten (1961), The Automatic Oracle (1987), The Chair of Babel (1992), Dragons in Their Pleasant Palaces…
Peter Porter’s (1929-2010) urbane poetry was first published in 1961, since when he published sixteen collections and much journalism, collaborated with visual arts, and was Writer-in-Residence at several universities, including Hull, Reading, Nottingham, Edinburgh, Melbourne, and Sydney.
Peter Porter (born Feb. 16, 1929, Brisbane, Queen., Austl.—died April 23, 2010, London, Eng.) was an Australian-born British poet whose works are characterized by a formal style and rueful, epigrammatic wit.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Peter Porter was awarded the 2002 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. His collection Afterburner (2004), was shortlisted for the 2004 T. S. Eliot Prize and Better Than God (2009), was shortlisted for the 2009 Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year).
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The Australian-born Peter Porter, who died in 2010, became one of Britain’s best-loved poets. Perhaps appropriately for his future career, he was sacked from his first job in journalism for his ‘unworldliness’.
Porter’s Sturm und Drang period as a poet occurred in the late 1960s and early 70s. His poem ‘On This Day I Complete My Fortieth Year’ presents his Byronic persona ‘piling on fuel for the dark’.
