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	Peter Porter (poet) Criticism
		Peter Porter's poems on the death of his wife, where the agonising minutiae—the appointment card from an optician, other mail after she's dead—are presented in all their nakedness [in The Cost of Seriousness].
		Peter Porter's poems have always represented the authority of the articulate and hallowed.
		Peter Porter has always been, to put it mildly, interested in death: in his earlier collections he frequently reflected upon the deaths of others or contemplated his own, and even in his lighter poems death was always ready to sidle in among the lines of pointed social commentary and the mosaics of multi-cultural allusion.
	www.bookrags.com /criticisms/Peter_Porter_(poet) (573 words)

	03Porters
		Augustus Porter preceded his brother to western New York when the land was still clothed in virgin timber and the Seneca still held rights to all the land west of the Genesee River.
		Peter B. Porter, a lawyer, had graduated from Yale and was active in the State Republican party at the turn of the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries.
		This event highlighted the Porter's willingness to break ranks or take risks, even to the breakdown of the union of the young United States, as many believed Burr was intending, and the division of their political party.
	www.mobot.org /plantscience/ResBot/Niag/Hist2/Porters.htm (4136 words)

	Peter Porter
		COL. PETER A. The death of Col. PETER A. PORTER, of the Eighth New-York Volunteer Heavy Artillery, is an- nounced in dispatches from the Army of the Po- tomac.
		PORTER was a resident of Niagara County in this State, and we believe a lawyer by profession, in the prime of life, talented and wealthy, he goes to swell the long list of public men of this State who have offered their lives to their country, and have been sacrificed to the demon of war.
		In September, 1863, Col. PETER A. PORTER was unanimously nominated by the Union State Conven- tion as their candidate for the office of Secretary of State.
	library.morrisville.edu /local_history/sites/gar_post/porter.html (378 words)

	John Kinsella: poet, novelist, critic, and journal editor
		Peter Porter needs little introduction in England, his adopted country, as, I am glad to say, is also the case in Australia, his place of birth.
		Porter's struggle with an Australian identity that in many ways resulted in his spiritual exile has always informed his verse, and this is being increasingly recognised.
		But Peter Porter made a cultural as much as a physical move at a time when leaving was excommunication - and on the other side, a perceived cultural aridity forced artists into "exileÐ and it is the reconciliation with the cultural possibilities of Porter's homeland that informs even his most tangential observations.
	www.johnkinsella.org /new/essays/celebporter.html (2568 words)

	Peter Porter - Senate - The University of Sydney
		Peter Porter was born in Brisbane in 1929 and belongs to that generation of highly talented Australians who sought and made their fortunes and reputations in Britain.
		Peter Porter's poetry blurs the margin and centre in a postcolonial world, and his vocabulary is multinational.
		Peter Porter's contribution to English literature has been widely and publicly acknowledged - by the award of the Whitbread Poetry Prize in 1988, the Gold Medal of the Australian Literature Society in 1990, the Age Poetry Prize in 1997 and by an Emeritus Award of the Australia Council in 1998.
	www.usyd.edu.au /senate/committees/advisoryPorter.shtml (609 words)

	The Music Show - 28/09/2002: Peter Porter
		Peter Porter: Well most of them are tone deaf, but apart from that, there is the further consideration that music has a kind of magic which is denied to us I think, in our language, simply because everybody knows the language, but not many people are trained in music.
		Peter, I love that piece, very much indeed, but I’m terribly aware I suppose of what Britten is doing at moments such as the lulling charities where the music rocks back and forth, or that lovely slow trill on ‘burrowing like a mole’ where you can hear the mole tunnelling.
		Peter Porter, I can’t help feeling that one of the reasons that’s such a great song - you say it’s a great poem, and an even greater song - is that Britten himself identified quite strongly with those words.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/music/mshow/s697080.htm (4792 words)

	Mountain Home News: Story: Peter Porter, 48
		Peter A. Porter, 48, of Mountain Home died Thursday, Dec. 16, 2004, at his home in Mountain Home, after a battle with cancer.
		Peter was born Sept. 28, 1956, in Saranac Lake, N.Y., to Sherwin (Bud) and Joyce Porter.
		Peter is survived by: his wife, Suk, of Mountain Home; his mother, Joyce Porter; and two brothers, Keith and Kevin, of New York.
	www.mountainhomenews.com /story/1084707.html (248 words)

	Peter Porter picks up a Palace poetry prize - theage.com.au
		Peter Porter admits very few of his fellow Australians would know his name but he received some cherished recognition today when he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.
		Porter left Australia in 1951 on the first post-war wave of arts exports to Britain after an unsuccessful career as a journalist on Brisbane's Courier Mail and has been in England since.
		Porter will receive the medal from the Queen at Buckingham Palace at a ceremony this summer as part of her golden jubilee celebrations.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/04/24/1019441259520.html (449 words)

	Peter Porter
		Poet Peter Porter was born in Brisbane, Australia in 1929.
		Peter Porter's collection of poems, Max is Missing, was published in 2001 and won the 2002 Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year).
		For many years Porter's reputation was higher in his adopted country than his native Australia but in recent years he has revisited Australia often and a new generation of Australian poets have accepted that a poet can straddle both worlds.
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors/?p=auth210 (891 words)

	Peter B. Porter
		Porter was greatly concerned about the safety of his constituents in event of war, because his district faced British Canada across the Niagara River.
		In 1811, War Hawk Porter became chairman of the important House Foreign Affairs Committee and during congressional debate promised to partake personally "not only in the pleasures, if any there should be, but in all the danger of the revelry, referring to the possibility of war.
		Porter's volunteers, after initially fleeing in retreat, regrouped and threw themselves into a fierce battle which ended in a British pull-back.
	ah.bfn.org /h/porter/porter.html (1605 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Automatic Oracle: Books: Peter Porter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A witty and original collection of poems by the author of Fast Forward, The Automatic Oracle illustrates Peter Porter's uncanny talent for difficult rhyming stanzas and his irreverence, on occasion, in deciding not to rhyme at all.
		With this new collection, Peter Porter shows his maturity as a poet and displays his ability to work in a variety of forms.
		The "oracle" of the title is the English language, with the poet acting as a "priest" bound to carry messages to the outside world.
	www.amazon.ca /Automatic-Oracle-Peter-Porter/dp/0192820885 (231 words)

	PETER PORTER, 1929 -
		The English Poets: From Chaucer to Edward Thomas, compiled by Porter and Anthony Thwaite.
		A Celebretory Ode by Peter Porter upon the Occasion of the Precise 250
		The Fate of Vultures: New Poetry of Africa, edited by Porter, Kofi Anyidoho, and Musaemura Zimunya.
	www.cas.sc.edu /engl/LitCheck/porter.htm (660 words)

	Amazon.ca: Spirit in Exile : Peter Porter and His Poetry: Books: Bruce Bennett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This is the first biography and major critical appraisal of Peter Porter, one of Australia's most distinguished and influential writers.
		Resident in London since the early 1950s, Porter is one of the leading Oxford Poets, his Collected Works awarded the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize in 1983, and The Automatic Oracle winning the Whitbread Prize for Poetry in 1988.
		Examining the influence of Porter's nationality and English `exile' on his life, work, and literary methods, Bruce Bennett has produced a frank and revealing study that also considers his relationships with other notable literary figures of his time.
	www.amazon.ca /Spirit-Exile-Peter-Porter-Poetry/dp/0195549708 (361 words)

	Lingua Franca - 15/5/1999: Peter Porter on Memorability (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Readers in stocking his mind and fellow Queenslanders, Gwen Harwood, Rodney Hall, Peter Porter and others', with poetry spoken aloud and memorised in the classroom.
		In a recent program, David Malouf spoke of the role of the old Queensland Readers in stocking his mind and fellow Queenslanders, Gwen Harwood, Rodney Hall, Peter Porter and others', with poetry spoken aloud and memorised in the classroom.
		Peter Porter: As a very young man, I travelled on England on a ship which numbered among its passengers a New Zealand choirmaster who could recite the whole of 'Paradise Lost' by heart.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/arts/ling/stories/s28610.htm (2153 words)

	Peter Porter (poet) Summary
		Peter Porter is often described as an Australian poet living in London.
		In the first decade of his career, Porter was a Hamlet raging at the world, seeing dishonest...
		Life Porter was born in Brisbane, Australia in 1929.
	www.bookrags.com /Peter_Porter_(poet) (310 words)

	Poetry notebooks of Peter Porter
		Peter Porter was born in Brisbane, Australia in 1929 and worked there as a cadet journalist before moving to London in 1951.
		Apart from a brief visit in 1954 Porter did not return to Australia for more than twenty years, but 1974 was a turning point for him.
		The events of this year formed the basis of the book The Cost of Seriousness, published in 1978 and considered by many to be his masterpiece.
	www.library.rdg.ac.uk /colls/special/porter.html (265 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on St Peter's Old Style Porter at Epinions.com
		No, porter is an enigma because it’s sort of a bastard of the beer world.
		One thing that is probably true is that it was named for the eighteenth century porters of London, who are said to have been fond of it.
		Peter’s porter, then, is a blended version, much like the early three threads that led to entire.
	www.epinions.com /content_86946909828 (661 words)

	Reading MND in Form 4B by Peter Porter - Poetry Archive
		Porter's work is rooted in a recognisably modern civilisation, but is aware of what that civilisation covers up - his poem 'The Sadness of the Creatures' opens with "We live in a third-floor flat / among gentle predators".
		Although his voice shows the effects of living in London since 1951, it has not lost an Australian tone; as a result, listeners are given a sense of 'somewhere else' that lends the poems, completely appropriately, the weight of external observations without becoming coldly clinical.
		He quotes Auden's "Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever" approvingly; these qualities are all to be heard in Porter's poetry on this CD.
	www.poetryarchive.org /poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=1710 (444 words)

	Porter,Peter Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		In this study Peter Burke distances himself from the traditional interpretation of the Renaissance as essentially Italian, self-conciously modern and easily separable from the Middle Ages.
		On the basis of a five-year voyage along the coast of South America and a great deal of thinking and observation in his native England, Charles Darwin not only reinvented the natural sciences but irrevocably altered humanity's picture of itself.
		Peter Potter published his first book of poems, Once Bitten, Twice Bitten, in 1961.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Porter,Peter (699 words)

	[minstrels] Japanese Jokes -- Peter Porter
		[Porter's] main subject is the decadence of commercial western society, to the analysis of which he brings a jaundiced and witty eye...
		porter has ingeniously crafted original epigrams using a 5-7-5 syllable form, that's all.
		From: "Russell" these poems are not, as your note seems to imply, translations, but original epigrams composed by pp and adapted to the 5-7-5 syllable japanese haiku form.
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/198.html (355 words)

	BABEL: Peter Porter (1992 AD) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A collection of poems, on biographical and more general subjects, on dreams, states of mind and, above all, on the divisiveness of language used in Porter's various "Babel" of forms.
		Peter Porter (1929-) was born and educated in Brisbane, where he worked as a journalist before coming to England in 1951.
		Since then he has worked as clerk, bookseller, and as copywriter in an advertising agency before becoming a full-time writer, broadcaster, and critic in 1968.
	towerofbabel.391.org /peterporter.htm (152 words)

	On the River Styx and Other Stories - Peter; Porter, Eliot Matthiessen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A collection of Peter Matthiessen's stories that were previously published in the Atlantic Monthly, New World Writing, Harper's, Antaeus, Saturday Evening Post, and Esquire.
		The first collection of Peter Matthiessen's stories spans the entire career of the writer.
		Peter Matthiessen's stunning collection of short stories spans more than three decades of writing by one of the most acclaimed literary voices of our time.
	www.biblio.com /books/7361246.html (428 words)

	LIDIA VIANU - The Desperado Age - British Literature at the Start of the Third Millennium \| Desperado Poetry - Peter ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The end of life on earth is in the line ‘Death is the least we have to fear.’ A superficial reading might say Porter uses irony to describe this world sick with violence and technology.
		Peter Porter answers a ‘consumer’s report’ on the product called ‘life’.
		Desperado in his cold irony and discouraging mood, Porter writes consummately and manages to get along without lyricism in poetry.
	www.e-scoala.ro /desperado/desperado_peter_porter.html (323 words)

	Peter Porter (poet) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Michelangelo, Life, Letters, and Poetry, with George Bull Oxford University Press, 1987.
		Penguin Modern Poets, No. 2 (Kingsley Amis, Dom Moraes, Peter Porter).
		Peter Steele, Peter Porter: Oxford Australian Writers Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1992.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Porter_(poet) (507 words)

	Jacket 16 - Peter Porter - two poems
		Peter Porter is an Australian-born poet resident in London since 1951.
		Photo of Peter Porter, London, 1989, by John Tranter.
		The spirit-like emanation from the solar plexus may be an artifact of the Polaroid® process.
	jacketmagazine.com /16/porter-peter.html (670 words)

	Peter Porter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Black Rock's Peter B. Porter: Lawyer, Statesman, Soldier
		Adventures in American History Series: Peter B. Porter and the Buffalo Black Rock Rivalry
		Lewis Allen Illustrations of Porter's Niagara St. house, later purchased by Allen
	ah.bfn.org /h/porter/tc.html (34 words)

	Peter Porter - MSN Encarta
		Porter, Peter, born in 1929, Australian poet, born in Brisbane, Queensland.
		Porter left school at 17 and worked as a journalist and in trade until he...
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	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_762509768/Porter_Peter.html (107 words)

	PETER PORTER - CLIPPED SIGNATURE
		PETER B. Signature: "P.B. Porter" as Secretary of War, 2¼x1¼ affixed to slightly larger sheet.
		Porter was J.Q. Adams' Secretary of War from 1828-1829.
		Nicked at upper blank edge, ½-inch hole at left blank margin.
	www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/12_2002/politicians/PETER_PORTER.htm (133 words)

	[minstrels] Mort aux Chats -- Peter Porter
		It's the tone of voice that does it, I think - the same mix of populist rhetoric and vile innuendo, the same blend of twisted logic and warped facts...
		Porter takes the caricature to extremes ("I blame my headaches and my plants dying on cats"), but let's not forget that people have been taken in by far less rational arguments in the past; the vicious anti-cat demagoguery may be sidesplittingly funny in its particulars, but it's no less powerful for that.
		And of course, the last sentence (which I did _not_ expect, the first time I read this poem) puts the whole poem into context - when we finally find out who the speaker is, we know _precisely_ how much trust to put into his words.
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/572.html (502 words)

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