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Peter Porter (1929–2010)

Author of Emily Dickinson (The Great American Poets)

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Emily Dickinson (The Great American Poets) 30 copies
Robert Frost (The Great American Poets) 25 copies
Collected Poems (Oxford Poets S.) 19 copies, 1 review
Great Poet Series, The : William Butler: Yeats (Great Irish poets) 19 copies, 1 review
The Great Cities: Sydney 17 copies
Christina Rossetti (The Great English Poets) 11 copies
William Shakespeare (Great English Poets) 10 copies
The Oxford Book of Modern Australian Verse 8 copies
Better than God 7 copies
Collected Poems: 1961-81 v. 1 (Oxford Poets S.) 6 copies
John Donne (Great English Poets) 5 copies
After Martial 5 copies
The cost of seriousness 5 copies
The Automatic Oracle (Oxford Paperbacks) 5 copies

Max Is Missing 4 copies

Living in a calm country 4 copies

Possible Worlds (Oxford Paperbacks) 4 copies

The Rest on the Flight: Selected Poems 4 copies

Afterburner 3 copies

Collected poems 3 copies

Dragons in Their Pleasant Palaces (Oxford Poets) 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 Illustrated Poets 2 copies

The Best Australian Poetry 2005 2 copies

The animal programme : four poems 1 copy

In Enkidu's nose 1 copy

The Shape of Poetry and the Shape of Music 1 copy, 1 review

William Shakespeare (Illustrated poets) 1 copy

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Canonical name

Porter, Peter

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Porter, Peter Nevill Frederick

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Date of birth

1929-02-16

Date of death

2010-04-23

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Australia

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Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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Toowoomba Grammar School, Australia

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poet

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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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