Peter Porter (poet) Summary

Peter Porter is a poet of unrest. Because this unrest is often moral and sometimes metaphysical, his writing has a prophetic quality rare in contemporary poetry. In the first decade of his career, Por... Read more

Critical Essay by Michael Wood Peter Porter might be described, unkindly, as another, younger, quirkier, brighter Betjeman. Certainly his verse is marred by the same jocose, inapposite cleverness... Read more

Critical Essay by Douglas Dunn Peter Porter's poems have always represented the authority of the articulate and hallowed. A disturbing sanity has been at the centre of his work. Concern for cu... Read more

Critical Essay by Emma Fisher Peter Porter's poems on the death of his wife, where the agonising minutiae—the appointment card from an optician, other mail after she's deadȁ... Read more

Critical Essay by Fleur Adcock Peter Porter has always been, to put it mildly, interested in death: in his earlier collections he frequently reflected upon the deaths of others or contemplated his ow... Read more