Poetic Obituaries: Focus too closely on the solemnity, however,

and you'll miss, among other things, [Peter] Porter's open identification with "the English blindness". When you notice this line, on re-reading, you feel compelled to ask, "Isn't he meant to be Australian?" And then--"are we, the English, really that blind?" Like other poems in this collection, "An Exequy" attests to Porter's deeper affinities with the verse traditions of the English language, the roads not taken as well as the major arterial routes.

from The Oxonian Review: Peter Porter: 1929-2010
also The Guardian: The Rest on the Flight: Selected Poems by Peter Porter

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