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Peter Porter

Peter Porter has long been a resident of London but is a native of Australia. He cannot remember a time when the river (whether it were the Brisbane River of his childhood, the Thames of his earliest exile or the Arno of his strongest dazzlement) wasn’t at the heart of his natural landscape. Porter’s definitive Collected Poems was issued in 1999, the product of fifty years working in verse.

Awards

Winner, Duff Cooper Prize Collected Poems, 1983
Winner, Whitbread Poetry Award, 1988
Winner, Gold Medal for Australian Literature, 1990
Winner, Forward Poetry Prize, 2002
Winner, Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, 2002
Short list, T. S. Eliot Prize, 2004

Books available from Fremantle Press

Wilderness Society Award

Congratulations to Sally Morgan whose book The Last Dance won the Wilderness Society’s 2013 Environment Award for Children’s Literature. Meg McKinlay and Kyle Hughes-Odgers were also shortlisted in the same category for Ten Tiny Things