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Peter Porter (1929–2010)

Author of Emily Dickinson (The Great American Poets)

Includes the names: Porter Peter, peter porter editor), edited by Peter Porter.

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Works by Peter Porter

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Emily Dickinson (The Great American Poets) 35 copies
Robert Frost (The Great American Poets) 25 copies
Collected Poems (Oxford Poets S.) 22 copies, 1 review
The Great Cities: Sydney 21 copies
Great Poet Series, The : William Butler: Yeats (Great Irish poets) 20 copies, 1 review
Christina Rossetti (The Great English Poets) 12 copies
William Shakespeare (Great English Poets) 11 copies
The Oxford Book of Modern Australian Verse 9 copies
Better than God 7 copies
John Donne (Great English Poets) 6 copies
The Rest on the Flight: Selected Poems 6 copies
Collected Poems: 1961-81 v. 1 (Oxford Poets S.) 6 copies
The Automatic Oracle (Oxford Paperbacks) 5 copies
After Martial 5 copies

The cost of seriousness 5 copies

Max Is Missing 5 copies

Collected poems 4 copies

Possible Worlds (Oxford Paperbacks) 4 copies

Living in a calm country 4 copies

The Illustrated Poets 4 copies

Afterburner 3 copies

Dragons in Their Pleasant Palaces (Oxford Poets) 3 copies

The Best Australian Poetry 2005 3 copies

Peter Porter reads from his own work 3 copies

Millennial Fables (Oxford Poets) 2 copies

New Writing: Vol 5 (New Writing) 2 copies

Last of England 2 copies

The Chair of Babel (Oxford Poets S.) 1 copy

William Shakespeare (Illustrated poets) 1 copy

A Porter Selected (Oxford Poets) 1 copy

New Poems: 1971-72 a PEN Anthology of Contemporary Poetry 1 copy

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Also by Peter Porter

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Penguin Modern Poets 2: Kingsley Amis, Dom Moraes, Peter Porter 46 copies
Selected Poems (Editor) 10 copies

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Canonical name

Porter, Peter

Legal name

Porter, Peter Nevill Frederick

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Date of birth

1929-02-16

Date of death

2010-04-23

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Gender

male

Nationality

Australia

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Birthplace

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Place of death

Places of residence

England, UK

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Education

Church of England Grammar School, Brisbane, Australia

Occupations

poet

editor

translator

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Awards and honors

Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

Duff Cooper Prize (1983)

Whitbread Poetry Award (1988)

Gold Medal for Australian Literature (1990)

Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry (2002)

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