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In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at ...

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Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.

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I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the po...

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Peter Porter (poet)

Poet

Born: 1929-02-16

Died: 2010-04-23

Peter Neville Frederick Porter (16 February 1929 – 23 April 2010) was an Australian-born poet and critic who lived for most of his adult life in Britain. He was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2002, and the Royal Society of Literature made him a Companion of Literature in 2007.More