Education
Porter attended the Church of England Grammar School and left school at 18.
- Photos
- Works
Peter Porter
Edit Profile
Achievements
-
In 2001, he was named Poet in Residence at the Royal Albert Hall. In 2004 he was a candidate for the position of Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. In 2007, he was made a Royal Society of Literature Companion of Literature, an honour bestowed on a maximum of ten living writers.
After news of Porter's death in 2010, the Australian Book Review announced it would rename its ABR Poetry Prize the Peter Porter Poetry Prize in honour of Porter.
Works
Connections
He married in 1961 and had two daughters (born in 1962 and 1965). Porter's wife, the former Shirley Jannice Henry, committed suicide in 1974, and was found dead in her parents house in Marlow, Buckinghamshire. In 1991 Porter married Christine Berg, a child psychologist.
