and formidably erudite poet, has died at the age of eighty-one. Briefly the TLS's poetry editor during the 1970s, his association with the paper goes back to 1960, when his calling card of a poem, "Metamorphosis" (below), first appeared in print; he continued to contribute poems and reviews on an impressively wide range of subjects (including, in recent years, Shakespeare's poems) up to last year. Those contributions--and that uncompromising eye for an irony--will be much missed. Metamorphosis
from The Times Literary Supplement: Poem of the Week: Peter Porter, 1929--2010
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