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The Rest on the Flight: Selected poems by Peter Porter

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February 2011, no. 328

The Rest on the Flight: Selected poems by Peter Porter

Allen & Unwin, $39.99 hb, 440 pp

The Rest on the Flight: Selected poems by Peter Porter

by
February 2011, no. 328

It’s the voice, isn’t it, of a master, so unmistakably in command of a music that is inseparable from the personal modesty that is its signature, which belies all grandeur and refuses to take credit for the gift but has it nonetheless in abundance. When Craig Sherborne read the last poem in this Selected Poems, ‘After Schiller’, at the Melbourne memorial service for Peter Porter, it was self-evident. It came with a shock of recognition – almost a surprise – that we were in the hands of a great poet; that one of the highest gifts a human being could possess had passed from us with the death of this man in April 2010.

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