I should begin with an apologia for my title. An interesting, entertaining and useful paper might be written about the satirical, Swiftian aspect of Peter Porter's poems. This isn't it. Nor am I concerned here with the imaginative and intellectual brilliance of so many Porter titles, though this too would make a fascinating subject. Rather my interest is in the idea of 'modesty' in relation to art and artists as it is articulated in Peter's work.
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Bruce Bennett, Adrian Caesar, Mariaconcetta Costantini, Tamas Dobozy, Clive James, John Lucas, Sean Purchase and Peter Steele
Notes on contributors
Richard Godden, Hugh Underhill, Andrew Sant, Adrian Caesar, Michael Bartholomew-Biggs and Peter De Ville
Treblinka RICHARD GODDEN
Life Slips By A Lake’s Progress HUGH UNDERHILL
Golconda ANDREW SANT
The Gift The Trespasser ADRIAN CAESAR
For MJB Wherever This May Find Him MICHAEL BARTHOLOMEW-BIGGS
Surprise: St Paul’s PETER DE VILLE
Catherine Byron, Adrian Caesar, Philip Callow, Barry Cole, George Dandoulakis, Angela Leighton, Clare MacDonald Shaw, John Mole, Tom Paulin, Peter Porter, Philip Ramp, Arnold Rattenbury, Maurice Rutherford, William Scammell, Matt Simpson, Mahendra Solanki, Anne Stevenson, Tim Thorne, John Tranter, Dimitris Tsaloumas, Gael Turnbull and Hugh Underhill
St Thomas Aquinas in MacNeice’s House, September 23rd, 1957
In an Australian Garden
Red Wine and Yellow Sun
For a Cornet Player, Retired
The Altar of the Motherland (trans.: Andreas Kalvos)
Looking at Pictures
Street Flowers
Fats
Oxford
The Puppy of Heaven
The Island Market
More Friggers for John: 22: Convict Tokens 1815-1840; 23: Trench Art 1914-1918
Only Connect
Self Improvement
Taking the Hexameter a Walk – a letter to John Lucas
From ‘The Riverside’
A Ballad for Apothecaries, Being a Poem to Honour the Memory of Nicholas Culpeper, Gent …
The Aisles
Sails
Aegina
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