One of the great traditionalists. I certainly read his work when
making my way into Australian poetry, as well as his urban vs country
battles with Les Murray, which were rhetorically great fun on both
sides...
Doug
On 24-Apr-10, at 1:40 AM, andrew burke wrote:
> Yes, I have an anecdote about him on my blog at http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
>
> On 24 April 2010 15:38, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>> The death has been annouced of the Australian-born poet Peter
>> Porter: he was
>> 81.
>>
>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/apr/23/poet-peter-porter-dies
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>> David Bircumshaw
>> "A window./Big enough to hold screams/
>> You say are poems" - DMeltzer
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> --
> Andrew
> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> 'Mother Waits for Father Late' republished available at
> http://www.picaropress.com/
> http://frankshome.org/AndrewBurke.html
>
Douglas Barbour
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The secret
I was immediately set upon by two or three
critics, who hurled sophistries and
maledictions at me that were astonishing
in their dimness.
Jorge Luis Borges
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