| Peter Porter's (b. 1929) urbane poetry was first published in 1961, since when he has published sixteen collections and much journalism, collaborated with visual arts, and been Writer-in-Residence at several universities, including Hull, Reading, Nottingham, Edinburgh, Melbourne, and Sydney. He has been awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, won the Duff Cooper and the Whitbread prizes, and has been the subject of a special issue of Poetry Review.
1 Death in the Pergola Tea Rooms 2.43
2 Tobias and the Angel 1.51
3 Reading MND in Form 4B 1.59
4 The Great Poet Comes Here in Winter 2.10
5 The History of Music (No. 3 of Three Poems for Music) 1.12
6 The Sadness of the Creatures 2.35
7 Sex and the Over Forties 1.05
8 Mort Aux Chats 1.26
9 Anger 0.31
10 Dreamtime 1.50
11 The Easiest Room in Hell 1.38
12 An Exequy 4.33
13 Gertrude Stein at Snail's Bay 1.59
14 Non piangere, Liu 0.51
15 The Future 1.28
16 Doll's House 1.15
17 A Sour Decade 0.49
18 And No Help Came 0.45
19 Woop Woop 2.06
20 A Chagall Postcard 0.43
21 Civilization and its Disney Contents 2.44
22 Little Buddha 1.42
23 Wish We Were There 1.52
24 Wittgenstein's Dream 1.58
25 The Camp 2.22
26 A Great Reckoning in a Little Room 0.48
27 Old Goldfields, Maryborough 1.36
28 The Lion of Antonello da Messina 1.17
29 The Pines of Rome 1.32
30 Leaving Mantua 3.26
31 Both Ends Against the Middle 1.11
32 To My Granddaughters Sweeping Spelsbury Church 2.26
33 Max Is Missing 1.28
34 The Last Hours of Cassiodorus 1.12
35 Tasso's Oak 2.02
36 The Last Wave Before the Breakwater 1.08
37 Afterburner 2.58
38 Mutiny of the Bountiful 1.59
39 Well, Francis, Where's the Sun? 0.46
Total length of the recording 68.11
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