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Peter Porter (Peter Neville Frederick Porter) was born on 16 February, 1929 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, is a British-based Australian poet. Discover Peter Porter's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 81 years old?

Popular As Peter Neville Frederick Porter
Occupation Poet
Age 81 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 16 February 1929
Birthday 16 February
Birthplace Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Date of death 23 April, 2010
Died Place London, United Kingdom
Nationality Australia

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His wife is Jannice Henry (died 1974), Christine Berg

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1929

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

Porter was born in Brisbane, Australia, in 1929.

1938

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) and left school at eighteen to work as a trainee journalist at The Courier-Mail.

However, he only lasted a year with the paper before he was dismissed.

1951

He emigrated to England in 1951.

On the boat he met the future novelist Jill Neville.

1955

In 1955 he began attending meetings of "The Group".

1958

His poems first appeared in the Summer 1958 and October 1959 issues of Delta.

1960

The publication of his poem Metamorphosis in The Times Literary Supplement in January 1960 brought his work to a wider audience.

1961

It was his association with "The Group" that allowed him to publish his first collection in 1961.

He married Jannice Henry, a nurse from Marlow, Buckinghamshire, in 1961 and they had two daughters (born in 1962 and 1965).

During this period he worked in advertising, and was beginning to find work in the literary press.

His first collection Once Bitten Twice Bitten was published by Scorpion Press in 1961.

Influences on his work include W. H. Auden, John Ashbery and Wallace Stevens.

. He went through distinct poetic stages, from the epigrams and satires of his early works Once Bitten Twice Bitten, to the elegiac mode of his later ones; The Cost of Seriousness and English Subtitles.

In a recorded conversation with his friend Clive James he stated that the"glory of present-day English writing in America, in Australia and in Britain, is what is left over of the old regular metrical pattern and how that can be adapted to the new sense that the main element, the main fixture of poetry is no longer the foot (you know, the iambus or the trochee) but the cadence. It seems that what is very important is to get the best of the old authority, the best of the old discipline along with the best of the new freedom of expression."

1966

Porter was portrayed in Neville's first book, The Fall Girl (1966).

After two suicide attempts, he returned to Brisbane.

Ten months later he was back in England.

1974

Jannice committed suicide in 1974, greatly affecting Porter's work, in particular The Cost of Seriousness.

1983

In 1983 Porter was a judge in the Booker–McConnell Prize.

1991

In 1991 Porter married Christine Berg, a child psychologist.

2001

In 2001, he was named Poet in Residence at the Royal Albert Hall.

2004

In 2004 he was a candidate for the position of Professor of Poetry at Oxford University.

2007

In 2007, he was made a Royal Society of Literature Companion of Literature, an honour bestowed on a maximum of ten living writers.

2010

Porter died on 23 April 2010, aged 81, after suffering from liver cancer for a year.

After news of Porter's death in 2010, the Australian Book Review (ABR) announced that, in his honour, it would rename its ABR Poetry Prize as the Peter Porter Poetry Prize.

He was buried on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.