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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
- Rivers 2002
From the Catalogue
Outdoor Reading in Freo
The National Year of Reading is about turning Australia into a nation of readers. Fremantle City Library invites you the launch of the National Year of Reading 2012 at their Outdoor Reading Room.
Indulge your love of reading this Valentine’s Day with a morning tea and talks by Susanna Juliano author of Fremantle Italians and Andrew Relph, author of Not Drowning, Reading
When: 10am, 14 February 2012
Where: Outdoor Reading Room, Kings Square, Fremantle
RSVP by 7 Feb: 08 9432 9766 or frelib@fremantle.wa.gov.au
