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Biography

About me:

When I won the 2008 Arvon International Poetry Competition, Book Brunch referred to me as a "hitherto unknown poet". The poem “Shoreditch Orchid” goes back to 1994, but I wasn’t intending to play such a long game. I was joint winner of the 1991 Poetry Business pamphlet competition with Moniza Alvi, our entries published together as Peacock Luggage in 1992. Smith/Doorstop also published my pamphlet Be Prepared in 1994. One of the poems in Peacock Luggage had been commended in the National Poetry Competition, and you can read it on the Poetry Society’s website.

In the mid-1980s I was part of gay poetry group the Oscars, which became the Oscars Press. I edited Take Any Train: a book of gay men’s poetry (1990) and we published other books including Jugular Defences: an AIDS anthology which I edited with Steve Anthony. I spent some time in 1992 as an intern on The James White Review, a gay men’s literary magazine based in Minneapolis; I also visite

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Peter Porter

Biography

Peter Porter was born in Brisbane, Australia in 1929. He moved to London in 1951, and became associated with ‘The Group’ of poets including Martin Bell and Phillip Hobsbaum. Porter worked in bookselling and advertising before becoming a freelance writer and broadcaster in 1968, working for The Observer as poetry critic. In 1999, OUP published two volumes of Porter’s poetry covering the years 1961-1981 (volume 1), and 1984 -1999 (volume 2).

In 2001, 50 years after leaving Australia, he returned to Melbourne for the premiere of The voice of Love, a song cycle combining the words of Peter Porter, and the music of the British composer Nicholas Maw. In the same year, he was Poet-in-Residence for the Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall.

Arguably, the most distinguished poet working in Britain today – and one profoundly informed by European history and culture – is an Australian. Peter Porter was born in Brisbane and moved to London at the age of twenty-one. Porter’s extraordinary body of work includes eighteen collections of poetry, high

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Peter Porter (poet)

British-based Australian poet (1929– 2010)

Peter Porter OAM
Porter in 2007
Born	Peter Neville Frederick Porter (1929-02-16)16 February 1929 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Died	23 April 2010(2010-04-23) (aged 81) London, United Kingdom
Resting place	Highgate Cemetery
Occupation	Poet
Nationality	Australian British
Spouse	Jannice Henry (died 1974), Christine Berg

Peter Neville Frederick PorterOAM (16 February 1929 – 23 April 2010) was a British-based Australian poet.

Life

Porter was born in Brisbane, Australia, in 1929. His mother, Marion, died of a burst gall-bladder in 1938. He was educated at the Anglican Church Grammar School (then known as the Church of England Grammar School)^[1] and left school at 18 to work as a trainee journalist at The Courier-Mail. However, he only lasted a year with the paper before he was dismissed.^[2] He emigrated to England in 1951. On the boat he met the future novelist Jill Neville. Porter was portrayed in Neville's first book, The