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Max is Missing
Peter Porter
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Description for Max is Missing
Paperback. Max is Missing is Peter Porter's first book of the new millennium, and an openly declared 'late work'. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 8. Weight in Grams: 116.
Few poets now writing share Porter’s sense of the big picture, his ability to read the small event against the waxings and wanings of culture and empire.
Whether these poems look at Europe through the strata of its Golden Ages, revisit the Australia of his childhood or turn their surreal wit to the quieter domestic landscape, together they amount to a sustained meditation on the spirit that bears comparison with the late poems of Wallace Stevens. Magisterial in its perspective and possessed of a rare intellectual sanity, Max is Missing is Porter’s most charged and direct work since ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Picador
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780330486989
SKU
V9780330486989
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About Peter Porter
Peter Porter is one of Australia's best loved poets. A friend to the greats - Philip Larkin, Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes as well as to contemporary writers such as Julian Barnes and Martin Amis. He lives in London
Reviews for Max is Missing
'In my house his Collected Poems is to be found, not on the poetry shelves (between Pope and Pushkin), but on the kitchen sideboard. His is a voice I value and honour. I need its nourishment daily' Martin Amis