Porter, Peter (1929- )

Australian poet, in England from 1951. His early works satirize fashionable London in the 1960s; later, his poetry became more contemplative. His collections include Once Bitten, Twice Bitten (1961), The Cost of Seriousness (1978), Collected Poems (1983), The Automatic Oracle (1987), which won the Whitbread Poetry Award, and Max is Missisng (2001), which won the 2002 Forward Poetry Prize.

Porter has also produced translations of the Roman poet Martial. Other collections include Poems Ancient and Modern (1964), The Last of England (1970), English Subtitles (1981), and Afterburner (2004). He was awarded the 2002 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.