Porter
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Mars (SIGNED)
- £55.00
- The third of Porter's collaborations with Australian artist Arthur Boyd. The theme in this collection is the god of war, Mars, which resulted in a harsh, violent, acerbic, witty, despairing, and haunting work. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour…
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Max is Missing (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- Few poets now writing share PorterÕs sense of the big picture, his ability to read the small event against the waxings and wanings of culture and empire. Whether these poems look at Europe through the strata of its Golden Ages, revisit the Australia of his childhood or turn their surreal…
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Millennial Fables (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £18.00
- In the countdown to the Third Millennium, time and events tend to be scrutinized apprehensively. Ordinary human fear of portents and oracles becomes intensified. Peter Porter's new collection acknowledges this pressure, and protests against it. More than ever, his poems express contemporary life in its present flux, while forecasting a…
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Narcissus (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- 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…
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Once Bitten, Twice Bitten (SIGNED)
- £85.00
- The first published anthology of the Australian/British poet Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010). Influences on his work include W. H. Auden, John Ashbery and Wallace Stevens. He went through distinct poetic stages, from the epigrams and satires of his early works Once Bitten Twice Bitten, to the elegiac mode of his…
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Paeans for Peter Porter (multiple SIGNED)
- £350.00
- A celebration for Peter Porter on his seventieth birthday by twenty of his friends, 16 February 1999 edited by his friend Anthony Thwaite. Included are Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, Alan Brownjohn, Geoffrey Burgon, Wendy Cope, Allen Curnow, Ian Duhig, D. J. Enright, U. A. Fanthorpe, Barry Humphries, Clive James, David…
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Poems Ancient & Modern (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- The second published anthology of the Australian/British poet Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010). Influences on his work include W. H. Auden, John Ashbery and Wallace Stevens. He went through distinct poetic stages, from the epigrams and satires of his early works Once Bitten Twice Bitten, to the elegiac mode of his…
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Poetry supplement / for Poetry Book Society, Christmas ’80 (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Poetry Book Society's Christmas supplement edited by Peter Porter, including contributions from Dannie Abse, Patricia Beer, Alan Brownjohn, Gavin Ewart, Evan Jones, George MacBeth, Rolland Munro, Peter Redgrave, Penelope Shuttle, Jacqueline Simms, George Szirtes, Anthony Thwaite, and Robert Preston Wells. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal…
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Possible Worlds (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £25.00
- A collection by Australian/British poet and writer Peter Porter, it contains 42 poems, some of which were published here for the first time. 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.
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Preaching to the Converted (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- The sixth published anthology of the Australian/British poet Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010). Influences on his work include W. H. Auden, John Ashbery and Wallace Stevens. He went through distinct poetic stages, from the epigrams and satires of his early works Once Bitten Twice Bitten, to the elegiac mode of his…
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Shy (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Max Porter is one of my favourite writers in the world.' George Saunders 'Beautiful and haunting.' Kevin Barry 'The strangest, most beguiling and affecting of all his books.' Ian Rankin 'A miracle of language.' Irish Times This is the story of a few strange hours in the life of a…
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The Automatic Oracle (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £30.00
- 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. Porter's themes here…
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The Chair of Babel (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £25.00
- This is a collection of 50 new poems, on a great mixture of autobiographical and more general subjects; on dreams, states of mind, and above all on the divisiveness of language, used in Porter's various `Babel' of forms. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of…
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The Cost of Seriousness (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Though only a few of the poems in this collection (Porter's seventh) are directly autobiographical, the whole book is haunted by one event--the death of his wife at the end of 1974. 'The cost of seriousness will be death' says the title poem. Porter was made a Companion of Literature…
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The Lady and the Unicorn (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- The second of Porter's collaborations with Australian artist Arthur Boyd. 'The moral of the story is that acquisitiveness leads to disappointment, if not to wanton destruction although Boyd and Porter focussed their attention on the changing relationship between the Lady and the Unicorn, rather than the acquisitive Emperor. The final…
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Mars (SIGNED)
- £55.00
- The third of Porter's collaborations with Australian artist Arthur Boyd. The theme in this collection is the god of war, Mars, which resulted in a harsh, violent, acerbic, witty, despairing, and haunting work. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour…
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Max is Missing (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- Few poets now writing share PorterÕs sense of the big picture, his ability to read the small event against the waxings and wanings of culture and empire. Whether these poems look at Europe through the strata of its Golden Ages, revisit the Australia of his childhood or turn their surreal…
- Add to basket
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Millennial Fables (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £18.00
- In the countdown to the Third Millennium, time and events tend to be scrutinized apprehensively. Ordinary human fear of portents and oracles becomes intensified. Peter Porter's new collection acknowledges this pressure, and protests against it. More than ever, his poems express contemporary life in its present flux, while forecasting a…
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Narcissus (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- 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…
- Add to basket
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Once Bitten, Twice Bitten (SIGNED)
- £85.00
- The first published anthology of the Australian/British poet Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010). Influences on his work include W. H. Auden, John Ashbery and Wallace Stevens. He went through distinct poetic stages, from the epigrams and satires of his early works Once Bitten Twice Bitten, to the elegiac mode of his…
- Add to basket
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Paeans for Peter Porter (multiple SIGNED)
- £350.00
- A celebration for Peter Porter on his seventieth birthday by twenty of his friends, 16 February 1999 edited by his friend Anthony Thwaite. Included are Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, Alan Brownjohn, Geoffrey Burgon, Wendy Cope, Allen Curnow, Ian Duhig, D. J. Enright, U. A. Fanthorpe, Barry Humphries, Clive James, David…
- Add to basket
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Poems Ancient & Modern (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- The second published anthology of the Australian/British poet Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010). Influences on his work include W. H. Auden, John Ashbery and Wallace Stevens. He went through distinct poetic stages, from the epigrams and satires of his early works Once Bitten Twice Bitten, to the elegiac mode of his…
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Poetry supplement / for Poetry Book Society, Christmas ’80 (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Poetry Book Society's Christmas supplement edited by Peter Porter, including contributions from Dannie Abse, Patricia Beer, Alan Brownjohn, Gavin Ewart, Evan Jones, George MacBeth, Rolland Munro, Peter Redgrave, Penelope Shuttle, Jacqueline Simms, George Szirtes, Anthony Thwaite, and Robert Preston Wells. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal…
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Possible Worlds (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £25.00
- A collection by Australian/British poet and writer Peter Porter, it contains 42 poems, some of which were published here for the first time. 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.
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Preaching to the Converted (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- The sixth published anthology of the Australian/British poet Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010). Influences on his work include W. H. Auden, John Ashbery and Wallace Stevens. He went through distinct poetic stages, from the epigrams and satires of his early works Once Bitten Twice Bitten, to the elegiac mode of his…
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Shy (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Max Porter is one of my favourite writers in the world.' George Saunders 'Beautiful and haunting.' Kevin Barry 'The strangest, most beguiling and affecting of all his books.' Ian Rankin 'A miracle of language.' Irish Times This is the story of a few strange hours in the life of a…
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The Automatic Oracle (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £30.00
- 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. Porter's themes here…
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The Chair of Babel (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £25.00
- This is a collection of 50 new poems, on a great mixture of autobiographical and more general subjects; on dreams, states of mind, and above all on the divisiveness of language, used in Porter's various `Babel' of forms. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of…
- Add to basket
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The Cost of Seriousness (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Though only a few of the poems in this collection (Porter's seventh) are directly autobiographical, the whole book is haunted by one event--the death of his wife at the end of 1974. 'The cost of seriousness will be death' says the title poem. Porter was made a Companion of Literature…
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The Lady and the Unicorn (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- The second of Porter's collaborations with Australian artist Arthur Boyd. 'The moral of the story is that acquisitiveness leads to disappointment, if not to wanton destruction although Boyd and Porter focussed their attention on the changing relationship between the Lady and the Unicorn, rather than the acquisitive Emperor. The final…
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