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- In 1951 he, like many other artistically and intellectually aspiring young people of his generation, left Australia for England. There he established connections with other young poets (especially The Group) and worked as a bookseller, journalist, clerk and advertising copywriter in London. In 1961 Porter married an English woman, Jannice Henry.
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Peter Porter (born Feb. 16, 1929, Brisbane, Queen., Austl.—died April 23, 2010, London, Eng.) was an Australian -born British poet whose works are characterized by a formal style and rueful, epigrammatic wit.
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Poetry. Born: Brisbane, Australia. Publishers: Picador. Biography. Poet Peter Porter was born in Brisbane, Australia in 1929. He moved to London in 1951 and worked in bookselling and advertising before becoming a freelance writer and broadcaster in 1968, working for The Observer as poetry critic.
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Porter, Peter Neville Frederick (1929–2010), poet, was born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, on 16 February 1929, the only child of William Ronald Porter, warehouseman, and his wife, Marion, née Main. He was educated at the Church of England grammar school, Brisbane, and (after his mother's death in 1938) Toowoomba grammar school, Toowoomba.
Biography. Peter Porter’s (1929-2010) urbane poetry was first published in 1961, since when he published sixteen collections and much journalism, collaborated with visual arts, and was Writer-in-Residence at several universities, including Hull, Reading, Nottingham, Edinburgh, Melbourne, and Sydney. He was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for ...
Peter Porter held an individual place in both the British and Australian poetry of the last half century. Like Germaine Greer and Clive James who came to England a decade after him, he was among.
at this time, poetry was his great ambition. His personal life changed when he married Jannice Henry, a nurse, in 1961 and their first daughter Katherine was born in 1962.
In 1961 Porter married an English woman, Jannice Henry. After her sudden death in 1974, Porter brought up their two daughters. Having travelled widely in continental Europe, Porter was thoroughly familiar with European art and thought (particularly of Italy and Germany).
