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	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)

	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)

	New poetry: Porter, Tranter, Page, Emery - smh.com.au
		With most poets the impulse to record that world and to convey its essence in ''language such as men do use" (as Ben Jonson put it) clashes against a contrary desire - to allow poetry (like all art, according to Walter Pater) to aspire ''towards the condition of music".
		The veteran poet Peter Porter, who last month was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, does that kind of thing far better.
		Like Emery and Page, Porter is also intent from time to time on recording and commemorating familiar and personal worlds: a family photograph taken in 1911; his grandson's deflated, parrot-shaped balloon.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/05/10/1021002385785.html (953 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 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)

	BBC News \| ARTS \| Queen honours poet Porter
		Mr Porter, 73, is expected to collect his medal in the summer, accompanied by the Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion.
		Recommendations for the honour have been made by the poet laureate since 1933, when the award was instituted by King George V at the suggestion of the then Poet Laureate, Dr John Masefield.
		Mr Porter was born in Brisbane in 1929 and has been writing poetry since he left school.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/1946667.stm (399 words)

	Philosophy - Thinking Woman's Diary
		Poets consistently pour their lives into their work — more so than any other writers, except perhaps for better songwriters and lyricists, who are closet poets, anyway.
		For it is the duty of the poet to put his or her life on a slab and dissect it and understand it, piece by piece and then hand on the revelations, pain and optimism to others for constructive perusal.
		While Porter’s quote might suggest that poetry can be enjoyable and affecting, illustrative and charming, it does not make men commit to wars or make women strap bombs to their waists.
	www.thinkingwomansdiary.com /philosophy.htm?article=41 (391 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)

	Lingua Franca - 15/5/1999: Peter Porter on Memorability
		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.
		The test of a poet,' they say, 'is the frequency and diversity of the occasions on which we remember his poetry.'
		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)

	Amazon.ca: The Automatic Oracle: Books: Peter Porter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		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)

	The shock of the old - theage.com.au
		With the poets it is a deepening and widening of the field of intensity, a lapidary intensification; there is no reliance on shock beyond the shock of recognition.
		I had decided to be a writer (a poet no less) and in 1948 I had hardly encountered any modern poet later than Rupert Brooke.
		Peter Porter talks tomorrow at noon on the politics of power, and then on words and music at 4pm.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/08/26/1030053026592.html (3566 words)

	Dead poets society, 21/11/98
		POETS were shocked to receive a curt letter from Oxford University Press yesterday informing them that the publishing house had decided to abandon its entire modern poetry list.
		The poet Peter Porter, who has been with OUP for 30 years, said: "It's a bad day for serious literature when the most distinguished academic publishing house in Britain chooses to neglect contemporary literature.
		The poet D J Enright, who has been with the publishing house since 1979, said the poetry list had never cost much to run, particularly as the poetry editor was only employed one day a week: "That can't have cost them much.
	www.btinternet.com /~akme/dedpoets.html (555 words)

	ActionScript-ToolBox: by Peter Porter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		I mean, one of the great problems of the 20th century has been that the poets recognising that there's a lack of seriouness in the world and turned themselves to a certain degree, to be stand up comedians, even the best of them.
		Now in the 60's and the 70's in England anyway, I'm not sure about Australia and America, the poet as a stand up comedian became practically, the sort of style of the time.
		Peter Buell Porter (August 14, 1773 - March 20, 1844) was a U.S. political figure and soldier.
	www.actionscript-toolbox.com /quotes/author/Peter-Porter.html (530 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.
		His wife died and he received an invitation from the Adelaide Festival and began to reintegrate himself as an Australian poet.
	www.library.rdg.ac.uk /colls/special/porter.html (265 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)

	John Kinsella: poet, novelist, critic, and journal editor
		When the expatriate Australian poet Peter Porter, in his poem "On First Looking Into Chapman's Hesiod", drew an analogy between Hesiod and Les Murray, he said, "Yes, Australians are Boeotians." Porter was referring to Murray's 1972 poem "The Boeotian Count".
		There is a symbiosis between them, and as a bard it is not only his right but his responsibility to speak.
		What attracts me as a poet to Murray's work is its organicism - the way a poem grows towards an "awareness".
	www.johnkinsella.org /essays/murray.html (934 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Porter scoops top poetry prize
		Australian poet Peter Porter has won the UK's biggest annual poetry award for the first time.
		"Porter is one of the most distinguished poets at work in Britain today," National Poetry Day and Forward Prizes founder William Sieghart said.
		The other judges were BBC arts correspondent Rosie Millard, poet Lavinia Greenlaw, Peter Stothard, editor of the Times Literary Supplement and Sean O'Brien, two-time winner of the Forward Prize.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/2313673.stm (370 words)

	Peter Porter (poet) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Penguin Modern Poets, No. 2 (Kingsley Amis, Dom Moraes, Peter Porter).
		The English Poets: From Chaucer to Edward Thomas with Anthony Thwaite Secker and Warburg, 1974.
		Peter Steele, Peter Porter: Oxford Australian Writers Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1992.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Porter_(poet) (507 words)

	LIDIA VIANU - The Desperado Age - British Literature at the Start of the Third Millennium \| Desperado Poetry - Peter ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		1929) is an uncomfortable poet, whose irony pierces the text and fights his sensibility.
		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’.
	www.e-scoala.ro /desperado/desperado_peter_porter.html (323 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)

	Books \| Poetry prize goes to veteran critic well versed in judging
		On the eve of National Poetry Day, the veteran poet Peter Porter - whose Collected Poems are so dear to Martin Amis that he claims the volume lives not on his book shelves but on his kitchen dresser - has won the £10,000 Forward Poetry prize, the biggest annual poetry award.
		Although Porter is a previous winner of both the Whitbread and Duff Cooper poetry prizes, as a literary journalist and critic he is more used to commenting on other poets' laurels than winning his own.
		The prize for the best first collection went to the Irish poet Tom French, for Touching the Bones, published by the small Irish Gallery Press - which had a short-listed poet in each category of the competition.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4520972-99819,00.html (614 words)

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	b.webring.com /hub?ring=beckyspoetrypage (1599 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Peter Porter (poet)
		Michelangelo, Life, Letters, and Poetry, with George Bull Oxford University Press, 1987.
		The English Poets: From Chaucer to Edward Thomas with Anthony Thwaite Secker & Warburg, 1974.
		The Romantic Poets: Byron, Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth, selected, Aurum, 1992.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Peter_Porter_(poet) (522 words)

	Amazon.com: "Peter Porter": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		However, the legacy left on the strand of the Thames included the novelist Jill Neville and the poet Peter Porter.
		the Lamb had made a significant impact on two poets of very dissimilar age and literary outlook, Edith Sitwell and Peter Porter.
		The other two Republicans were De Witt Clinton's first cousin Surveyor General Simeon De Witt and Peter Porter, a congressman with large business and property interests in western New York.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Peter-Porter (571 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 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Peter Buell Porter (1773 - 1844), U.S political figure and soldier.
		Peter Porter (poet), full name Peter Neville Frederick Porter (1929 -), Australian-born British poet.
		This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same human name.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Porter (89 words)

	[minstrels] Instant Fish -- Peter Porter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Porter's take on Phidias is amazingly self-referential; like the fish being described, the poem expands and takes on layers of meaning in the mind of the reader.
		In just 9 short words, Porter manages to invoke the ideas of life as art and art as life, the meaning of representation, the role of the viewer, even the effects of time...
		(Lest anyone think that I'm reading too much into what is actually a piece of nonsense, let me add that I thought of many of the above issues when I first read that poem; later (much later), I read a book of criticism which had Porter say the same things about this poem.
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/64.html (141 words)

	Peter Porter Books, Book Price Comparison at 130 bookstores
		Michelangelo was, apart from being a sculptor, architect, and painter of genius, a poet and letter-writer of remarkable accomplishment.
		In this new anthology, the noted Australian poet Peter Porter has compiled a strikingly original and impartial collection of modern Australian verse c...
		Peter Porter published his first book of poems, Once Bitten, Twice Bitten, in 1961.
	www.bookfinder4u.com /search_author/Peter_Porter.html (738 words)

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