Peter Porter (1929-2010) moved to Britain from Australia in 1951. He published seventeen collections of poetry. His two-volume Collected Poems 1961-1999 (OUP, 1999) was followed by Max Is Missing (2001), Afterburner (2004) and Better Than God (2009), and then by The Rest on the Flight: Selected Poems (2010), all from Picador Poetry. Martin Bell’s Complete Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 1988) was one...
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