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y Max is Missing selected work poetry

Author:agent Peter Porter http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/porter-peter

Issue Details: First known date: 2001... 2001 Max is Missing

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A collection of 41 poems some of which had been previously published. The subjects of the poems range from historic European cities to the Australia of Porter's childhood and the quiet domestic scene.

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Dedication: For Evan Jones
Content indexing in process.

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Deo Gratias Anglia"So when the moon is high on ancient spell", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 4)

Late Lines"Miscellanies as far afield as Tottel", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 9)

Max is Missing"The stars are there as mathematics is,", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 10-11)

The Puppy of Heaven"No one to flee from down the", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 19)

Last Words"In the beginning was the Word", Peter Porter , single work poetry

Streetside Poppies"After fifty years of writing poetry", Peter Porter , single work poetry

In Paradisum"The human body's a barometer", Peter Porter , single work poetry

Orlando's Parrot"My grandson's lighter-than-air sad parrot", Peter Porter , single work poetry

Come Close My Eyes"Our evil days grow shorter and the span", Peter Porter , single work poetry

The Sydney Spiders"That these seraphically pendentive killing fields", Peter Porter , single work poetry

A Butterfly Stampede"Softest of God's creatures ganging up", Peter Porter , single work poetry

Reinventing the Wheel"The age demands that we invent the wheel.", Peter Porter , single work poetry

Servants of the Servant of the Muse"Brave Servitos! The ones who wrote the wounding letters,", Peter Porter , single work poetry

The Atheist's Comedy"Variety's the life of spice words say", Peter Porter , single work poetry

The Undarken'd Ray"Even those wily moralists who guess", Peter Porter , single work poetry

The Last Hours of Cassiodorus"God is laying his last slat to the roof,", Peter Porter , single work poetry

Le Patron Mange Ici"Despite what Auden wrote", Peter Porter , single work poetry

So Unimaginably Different and So Long Ago"We who would probably want to remake", Peter Porter , single work poetry

Antonio Soler's Fingertips"Starting, starting, starting - I achieve", Peter Porter , single work poetry

Old Friends"Caught by your trade - a spacious memoir", Peter Porter , single work poetry

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Memoir as Suicide Susan Bradley Smith , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , October vol. 14 no. 2 2010;

Perfect Gentleman Sandra McLean , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 13 September 2003; (p. 7)

Indicators : New Poetry Kerry Leves , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 170 2003; (p. 135-138)
— Review of Otherland no. 8 2002 periodical issue ; Girl With Green Hair Liz Hall-Downs , 2000 selected work poetry ; The Pomelo Tree Margaret Bradstock , 1999 selected work poetry ; Max is Missing Peter Porter , 2001 selected work poetry ; Itinerant Blues Samuel Wagan Watson , 2002 selected work poetry ; Flying Blind Debbie Westbury , 2002 selected work poetry ; The Clothes-Prop Man : Poems from the South Para Reservoir Martin R. Johnson , 2002 selected work poetry ; The Ventriloquist's Child Clayton Hansen , 2001 selected work poetry short story

A Year of Reading Well : Poetry Lyn McCredden , 2002 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 3 August 2002; (p. 7)

Flights of the Plain and Fancy A. P. Riemer , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 11-12 May 2002; (p. 10)
— Review of Max is Missing Peter Porter , 2001 selected work poetry ; Darker and Lighter Geoff Page , 2001 selected work poetry ; Ultra : 25 Poems John Tranter , 2001 selected work poetry ; And Dug My Fingers in the Sand Brook Emery , 2000 selected work poetry

Deft Confrontations with Ageing and Death David McCooey , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 26 January 2002; (p. 7)
— Review of Max is Missing Peter Porter , 2001 selected work poetry ; Darker and Lighter Geoff Page , 2001 selected work poetry

A Thought Per Word Peter Goldsworthy , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February no. 238 2002; (p. 25-26)
— Review of Max is Missing Peter Porter , 2001 selected work poetry

A Portable Labyrinth Gerald Mangan , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 8 March no. 5162 2002; (p. 25)
— Review of Max is Missing Peter Porter , 2001 selected work poetry

Verse and Converse Philip Harvey , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Eureka Street , May vol. 12 no. 4 2002; (p. 42-43)
— Review of Max is Missing Peter Porter , 2001 selected work poetry

Perfect Gentleman Sandra McLean , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 13 September 2003; (p. 7)

Memoir as Suicide Susan Bradley Smith , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , October vol. 14 no. 2 2010;