Cirrus@Austlit

'Peter Porter, the highly esteemed, prolific 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.' (Introduction)