The first of Porter’s collaborations with Australian artist Arthur Boyd. ‘Among the stories which the Greeks told themselves to illuminate human nature, one with a perennial interest and eternally renewable force is that of Narcissus, who so adored his image in a pool that he languished and died (or fell in and drowned according to your source). Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour only given to a maximum of ten living writers.