PETER PORTER, 1929 -

 

Once Bitten, Twice Bitten:  Poems.  Northwood, Middlesex:  Scorpion Press, 1961.  Limited issue of 25 copies and trade issue.

 

Kingsley Amis, Dom Moraes, Peter Porter.  Harmondsworth:  Penguin, 1962.  Penguin Modern Poets, no. 2.

 

Poems Ancient and Modern.  Lowestoft, Suffolk:  Scorpion Press, 1964; New York:  Walker, 1967.

 

Words Without Music.  Oxford:  Sycamore Press, 1968.

 

Solemn Adultery at Breakfast Creek:  An Australian Ballad, words by Porter, music by Michael Jesset, with three linocuts by Peter Paul Piech.  London:  Keepsake Press, 1968.  200 copies.

 

The Voice of Love:  Song Cycle, poems by Porter, music by Nicholas Maw.  London:  Boosey & Hawks, 1968.  Score.

 

A Porter Folio:  New Poems.  Lowestoft, Suffolk:  Scorpion Press, 1969.

 

Diana and Actaeon.  Santa Barbara:  Unicorn Press, 1970.  Broadside, 375 copies.  Issued with ten other broadsides in Unicorn Folio, series three, number two.

 

The Last of England.  London & New York:  Oxford University Press, 1970.

 

Epigrams by Martial.  London:  Poem-of-the-Month Club, 1971.  Broadside.

 

A Choice of Pope’s Verse, edited, with an introduction, by Porter.  London:  Faber & Faber, 1971.

 

After Martial.  London & New York:  Oxford University Press, 1972.

 

Preaching to the Converted.  London & New York:  Oxford University Press, 1972.

 

New Poems, 1971-1972:  A P. E. N. Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, edited by Porter.  London:  Hutchinson, 1972.

 

Jonah, by Porter and Arthur Boyd.  London:  Secker & Warburg, 1973.

 

A Share of the Market.  Belfast:  Ulsterman, 1973.

 

Roloff Beny in Italy, designed and photographed by Roloff Beny, text by Porter and Anthony Thwaite.  London:  Thames & Hudson, 1974; New York:  Harper & Row, 1974.

 

Peter Porter Reads from His Own Work [book & record].  St. Lucia:  University of Queensland Press, 1974.

 

The English Poets:  From Chaucer to Edward Thomas, compiled by Porter and Anthony Thwaite.  London:  Secker & Warburg, 1974.

 

Living in a Calm Country.  London & New  York:  Oxford University Press, 1975.

 

The Lady and the Unicorn, by Porter and Arthur Boyd.  London:  Secker & Warburg, 1975.

 

New Poetry I, edited by Porter and Charles Osborne.  London:  Arts Council of Great Britain, 1975.

 

Annotations of Auschwitz, music by David Lumsdaine, words by Porter.  London:  Universal Edition, 1975.  Score.

 

A Lesson in Logic.  London:  Arts Council of Great Britain, [1976?].  Broadside.

 

The Cost of Seriousness.  Oxford & New York:  Oxford University Press, 1978.

 

Les Très Riches Heures:  Poem, with drawings by John Piper.  Richmond, Surrey:  Keepsake Press, 1978.  180 copies.

 

English Subtitles.  Oxford & New York:  Oxford University Press, 1981.

 

The Gregory Awards, 1980:  Poems, selected by Porter and Howard Sergeant.  London:  Secker & Warburg, 1981.

 

Thomas Hardy, selected and introduced by Porter, with photographs by John Hedgecoe.  London:  Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981.

 

The Animal Programme:  Four Poems.  London:  Anvil Press Poetry, 1982.  500 copies.

 

The Faber Book of Modern Verse, edited by Michael Roberts, 4th edition, revised by Porter.  London:  Faber & Faber, 1982.

 

A Celebretory Ode by Peter Porter upon the Occasion of the Precise 250th Anniversary of the Opening of a Theatre at Covent Garden, 7th December 1732.  London:  Friends of Covent Garden [1982?].

 

Collected Poems.  Oxford & New York:  Oxford University Press, 1983.

 

The Run of Your Father’s Library.  Leeds:  Albion Press, University of Leeds, 1984.  50 copies.

 

Fast Forward.  Oxford & New York:  Oxford University Press, 1984.

 

Orpheus:  A Chamber Opera in One Act, music by Geoffrey Burgon, libretto by Porter.  London:  Chester Music, 1985.  Vocal score.

 

Machines.  Hitchin, Herts.:  Mandeville Press, 1986.  250 copies.

 

William Blake, selected and introduced by Porter.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 1986; New York:  C.N. Potter, 1986.

 

Christina Rossetti, selected and introduced by Porter.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 1986; New York:  C.N. Potter, 1986.

 

Michelangelo, Life, Letters, and Poetry, selected and translated with an introduction by George Bull, poems translated by Bull and Porter.  Oxford & New York:  Oxford University Press, 1987.

 

William Shakespeare, edited, with an introduction, by Porter.  New York:  C.N. Potter, 1987; London:  Aurum, 1988. 

 

The Automatic Oracle.  Oxford & New York:  Oxford University Press, 1987.

 

Mars, by Porter and Arthur Boyd.  London:  Deutsch, 1988.

 

Complete Poems, by Martin Bell, edited by Porter.  Newcastle upon Tyne:  Bloodaxe, 1988.

 

John Donne, edited, with an introduction, by Porter.  London:  Aurum, 1988; New York:  C.N. Potter, 1988.

 

A Porter Selected:  Poems 1959-1989.  Oxford & New York:  Oxford University Press, 1989.

 

Possible Worlds.  Oxford & New York:  Oxford University Press, 1989.

 

The Fate of Vultures:  New Poetry of Africa, edited by Porter, Kofi Anyidoho, and Musaemura Zimunya.  Oxford:  Heinemann International, 1989.

 

Lord Byron, edited, with an introduction, by Porter.  London:  Aurum, 1989; New York:  C.N. Potter, 1989.

 

W. B. Yeats:  The Last Romantic, edited, with an introduction, by Porter.  New York:  C.N. Potter, 1989; London:  Aurum, 1990.

 

Anthony’s Advance:  A Poem for the Sixtieth Birthday of Anthony Thwaite.  Low Tharston:  A. Thwaite, 1990.

 

Percy Bysshe Shelley, selected, with an introduction, by Porter.  London:  Aurum, 1991.

 

The Chair of Babel.  Oxford & New York:  Oxford University Press, 1992.

 

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, selected, with an introduction, by Porter.  London:  Aurum, 1992.

 

Robert Burns, selected, with an introduction, by Porter.  London:  Aurum, 1992.

 

The Romantic Poets:  Byron, Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth, selected, with an introduction, by Porter and Geoffrey Moore.  London:  Aurum, 1992.

 

Robert Browning, selected, with an introduction, by Porter.  London:  Aurum, 1993.

 

Sti [cross] Jan Sind Lieb.  Hitchin, Herts:  Mandeville Press, 1993.  One of 26 pamphlets included in a festschrift collection dedicated to Roy Lewis on his 80th birthday.

 

Millennial Fables.  Oxford & New York:  Oxford University Press, 1994.

 

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, selected, with an introduction, by Porter.  London:  Aurum, 1994.

 

The Oxford Book of Australian Verse, edited by Porter.  Melbourne & Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 1996.

 

Dragons in Their Pleasant Palaces.  Oxford & New York:  Oxford University Press, 1997.

 

Collected Poems.  2 vols.  Oxford & Melbourne:  Oxford University Press, 1999.

 

Saving from the Wreck:  Essays on Poetry.  Nottingham:  Trent, 2001.

 

Max Is Missing.  London:  Picador/Macmillan, 2001.

 

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