Peter Porter: Poems Peter Porter

Poetry collections

• Once Bitten Twice Bitten, Scorpion Press, 1961
• Poems Ancient and Modern, Scorpion Press, 1964
• A Porter Folio, Scorpion Press, 1969
• The Last of England, Oxford University Press, 1970
• After Martial, Oxford University Press, 1972
• Preaching to the Converted, Oxford University Press, 1972
• Jonah, with Arthur Boyd, Secker & Warburg, 1973
• Living in a Calm Country, Oxford University Press, 1975
• The Lady and the Unicorn, with Arthur Boyd, Secker & Warburg, 1975
• The Cost of Seriousness, Oxford University Press, 1978
• English Subtitles, Oxford University Press, 1981
• Fast Forward, Oxford University Press, 1984
• Narcissus with Arthur Boyd, London: Seckers & Warburg, 1984
• The Automatic Oracle, Oxford University Press, 1987
• Mars, with Arthur Boyd, Deutsch, 1987
• Possible Worlds, Oxford University Press, 1989
• The Chair of Babel, Oxford University Press, 1992
• Millennial Fables, Oxford University Press, 1994
• Dragons in Their Pleasant Palaces, Oxford University Press, 1997
• Both Ends Against the Middle, 1999, as a section in Collected Poems Volume 2
• Max Is Missing, Picador/Macmillan, 2001
• Afterburner, Picador/Macmillan, 2004
• Better Than God, Picador, 2009
• Chorale at the Crossing, Pan Macmillan, 2016 (Posthumous)

Selected and collected poetry

• Collected Poems, Oxford University Press, 1983.
• A Porter Selected: Poems 1959–1989. Oxford University Press, 1989.
• Collected Poems. 2 vols. Oxford & Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Chapbooks

Poetry

• Solemn Adultery at Breakfast Creek The Keepsake Press, London, 1968 (200 copies)
• A Share of the Market Ulsterman Publications, Belfast, 1973.
• The Animal Programme: Four Poems Anvil Press Poetry Ltd, London, 1982 (250 copies). ISBN 0-85646-107-5.
• Machines with illustrations by George Szirtes, Mandeville, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, 1986 (250 copies). ISBN 0-904533-92-1.
• A King's Lynn Suite, King's Lynn Poetry Festival, 1999.
• Return to Kerguelen, Vagabond Press, London, 2001.

Essays

• Browning's Important Parleying: Stylistics across two centuries Leo S. Olschki Editore, Firenze, 1991.

Broadsheets

• Words Without Music, Sycamore Press, 1968.
• Epigrams by Martial, Poem-of-the-Month Club, 1971.

Translations

• After Martial Oxford University Press, 1972.
• from the Greek Anthology in Penguin Classics edition
• Michelangelo, Life, Letters, and Poetry, with George Bull Oxford University Press, 1987.
• Liu Hongbin, A Day Within Days, with the author. Ambit Books, London 2006. (Link to a reading of Porter's translation)

Essay collections

• Saving from the Wreck: Essays on Poetry. Trent, 2001.

Books edited

• A Choice of Pope's Verse, Faber and Faber, 1971.
• New Poems, 1971–1972: A P. E. N. Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, Hutchinson, 1972.
• The English Poets: From Chaucer to Edward Thomas, with Anthony Thwaite, Secker & Warburg, 1974.
• New Poetry I, with Charles Osborne, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1975.
• Thomas Hardy, selected, with photographs by John Hedgecoe, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981.
• The Faber Book of Modern Verse 4th edition, originally edited by Michael Roberts, Faber and Faber, 1982.
• William Blake, selected, Oxford University Press, 1986
• Christina Rossetti, selected, Oxford University Press, 1986
• William Shakespeare, with an introduction, C. N. Potter, 1987, Aurum, 1988.
• Complete Poems, by Martin Bell, Bloodaxe, 1988.
• John Donne, edited, Aurum, 1988.
• The Fate of Vultures: New Poetry of Africa, with Kofi Anyidoho, and Musaemura Zimunya. Heinemann International, 1989.
• Lord Byron, Aurum, 1989
• W. B. Yeats: The Last Romantic, Aurum, 1990.
• Percy Bysshe Shelley, selected, Aurum, 1991.
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning, selected, Aurum, 1992.
• Robert Burns, selected, Aurum, 1992.
• The Romantic Poets: Byron, Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth, selected, Aurum, 1992.
• Robert Browning, selected, Aurum, 1993.
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, selected, Aurum, 1994.
• The Oxford Book of Modern Australian Verse, Oxford University Press, 1996.
• Selected Poems of Lawrence Durrell, Faber and Faber, 2006.

Scores and libretti

• Annotations of Auschwitz, with music by David Lumsdaine, Universal Edition, 1975.
• Orpheus: A Chamber Opera in One Act, music by Geoffrey Burgon, Chester Music, 1985.
• The Voice of Love, words for a song cycle, music by Nicholas Maw.
• St Francis and the Wolf, an opera for children, music by Ronald Senator