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 product was a unified body of work, a book of twenty poems, each faced by a large-scale etching. Porter himself felt that he achieved Òthe necessary virtuosityÓ in The Hunters Set out to trap the Unicorn, and was pleased with Òthe chic ironyÓ of The Unicorn before the Emperor; his parody of Auden in The LadyÕs Wedding, and Òimaginative prose writingÓ in Death of the Unicorn. 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.