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Life

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He met Shirley Jannice Henry in 1958 and they married in 1961. They had two daughters born in 1962 and 1965. Jannice committed suicide in 1974.

In 1991 Porter married Christine Berg.

In 2001 he was Poet in Residence at the Royal Albert Hall. Royal Albert Hall The Royal Albert Hall of Arts and Sciences is an arts venue dedicated to Queen Victorias husband and consort, Prince Albert. ...

In 2004 he was one of the nominees for the prestigious position of Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. The chair of Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford is an unusual, high-profile academic appointment, now normally held for five years. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ...

Work

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Much of his work is satire, and he has been described as one of the few really talented satirists to emerge in the 1950s and 1960s. Satire is a literary technique not of writing or art which exposes the follies of its subject (for example, individuals, organizations, or states) to ridicule, often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change. ...

In a recorded conversation with his friend Clive James he stated: "the glory of present-day English writing in America, in Australia and in Britain, is what is left over of the old regular metrical pattern and how that can be adapted to the new sense that the main element, the main fixture of poetry is no longer the foot (you know, the iambus or the trochee) but the cadence. It seems that what is very important is to get the best of the old authority, the best of the old discipline along with the best of the new freedom of expression." Clive James (born October 10, 1939) in Kogarah, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, is an expatriate Australian writer, poet, essayist, critic, and commentator on popular culture. ...

Books

Individual Collections

• Once Bitten Twice Bitten Scorpion Press, 1961.
• Poems Ancient and Modern Scorpion Press, 1964.
• Words Without Music Sycamore Press, 1968.
• A Porter Folio Scorpion Press, 1969.
• The Last of England Oxford University Press, 1970.
• Epigrams by Martial Poem-of-the-Month Club, 1971.
• Preaching to the Converted Oxford University Press, 1972.
• Jonah with Arthur Boyd Secker & Warburg, 1973.
• Living in a Calm Country Oxford University Press, 1975.
• The Lady and the Unicorn with Arthur Boyd Secker & Warburg, 1975.
• The Cost of Seriousness Oxford University Press, 1978.
• English Subtitles Oxford University Press, 1981.
• Fast Forward Oxford University Press, 1984.
• The Automatic Oracle Oxford University Press, 1987.
• Mars with Arthur Boyd Deutsch, 1988.
• Possible Worlds Oxford University Press, 1989.
• The Chair of Babel Oxford University Press, 1992.
• Millennial Fables Oxford University Press, 1994.
• Dragons in Their Pleasant Palaces Oxford University Press, 1997.
• Max Is Missing Picador/Macmillan, 2001.
• Afterburner Picador/Macmillan, 2004.

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Translations

• After Martial Oxford University Press, 1972.
• from the Greek Anthology in Penguin Classics edition
• Michelangelo, Life, Letters, and Poetry, with George Bull Oxford University Press, 1987.

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Selected and Collected

• Collected Poems, Oxford University Press, 1983.
• A Porter Selected: Poems 1959-1989. Oxford University Press, 1989.
• Collected Poems. 2 vols. Oxford & Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Essays

• Saving from the Wreck: Essays on Poetry. Trent, 2001.

Appearance in Collections

• Penguin Modern Poets, No. 2 (Kingsley Amis, Dom Moraes, Peter Porter). Penguin, 1962.

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Books Edited

• A Choice of Pope’s Verse Faber & Faber, 1971.
• New Poems, 1971-1972: A P. E. N. Anthology of Contemporary Poetry Hutchinson, 1972.
• The English Poets: From Chaucer to Edward Thomas with Anthony Thwaite Secker & Warburg, 1974.
• New Poetry I with Charles Osborne, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1975.
• Thomas Hardy, selected, with photographs by John Hedgecoe. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981.
• The Faber Book of Modern Verse 4th edition, originally edited by Michael Roberts Faber & Faber, 1982.
• William Blake, selected , Oxford University Press, 1986
• Christina Rossetti, selected, Oxford University Press, 1986
• William Shakespeare, with an introduction, C.N. Potter, 1987, Aurum, 1988.
• Complete Poems, by Martin Bell, Bloodaxe, 1988.
• John Donne, edited, Aurum, 1988.
• The Fate of Vultures: New Poetry of Africa, with Kofi Anyidoho, and Musaemura Zimunya. Heinemann International, 1989.
• Lord Byron, Aurum, 1989
• W. B. Yeats: The Last Romantic, Aurum, 1990.
• Percy Bysshe Shelley, selected, Aurum, 1991.
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning, selected, Aurum, 1992.
• Robert Burns, selected, Aurum, 1992.
• The Romantic Poets: Byron, Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth, selected, Aurum, 1992.
• Robert Browning, selected, Aurum, 1993.
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, selected Aurum, 1994.
• The Oxford Book of Australian Verse Oxford University Press, 1996.

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Scores and Libretti

• Annotations of Auschwitz, with music by David Lumsdaine Universal Edition, 1975.
• Orpheus: A Chamber Opera in One Act, music by Geoffrey Burgon Chester Music, 1985.
• The Voice of Love, words for a song cycle, music by Nicholas Maw.

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Prizes

• 1983 Duff Cooper Memorial Prize for his first Collected Poems
• 1988 Whitbread Poetry Award for Automatic Oracle
• 1990 Gold Medal for Australian Literature.
• 2002 Forward Poetry Prize for Max Is Missing.
• 2002 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.

The Forward Poetry prizes were created in 1991. ... The Gold Medal for Poetry, originally instituted by King George V, is awarded in some years on 23 April, for a book of verse written by a United Kingdom or British Commonwealth citizen; before 1985 it was awarded only to British writers (this rule clearly not having hardened by 1940). ...

Sources

• When London Calls: The Expatriation of Australian Creative Artists to Britain, Cambridge University Press, 1999
• Peter Steele, Peter Porter: Oxford Australian Writers Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1992. ISBN 0195532821