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  • Author:agent Peter Porter http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/porter-peter
Issue Details: First known date: 1994... 1994 Millennial Fables
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Oxford, Oxfordshire,
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Americas,:Oxford University Press , 1994 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Approach Roadi"They didn't tell you how you were to go,", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 13)
Forty Years Oni"It was notation of the English air", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 14)
Littoral Truthi"You are discovering one of the mimetic truths", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 15)
The Picture of Little P.P. in a Prospect of Photographers' Propsi"See on this oval stained by time", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 16-17)
Connect Onlyi"I'm drinking illicitly", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 18-19)
Nil by Mouthi"Life enters by the mouth and so that's closed", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 20)
Covent Garden in the Sixtiesi"Here where bridges to the past", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 21)
Together Againi"I was strangely back - here, there or somewhere -", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 22)
Serenadei"In manner of a mystery we hear", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 23)
Late in the Dayi"Following Yeats's 'Cold Heaven' is nominal", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 24)
Happinessi"The world's a window on to death", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 25)
Sixes and Sevensi"Of equilibrium", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 26)
Estates and Sunshinei"And the poet stressed the flies. Metaphorical flies,", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 27)
Into the Garden with the Wrong Secateursi"The soul requires a second for repentance.", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 28-29)
Not the Thing Itself but Ideas About Iti"It wasn't the blackbird at the window", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 30)
Address to the Starsi"These points of light which metaphors debate", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 31)
A George Herbert Word Gamei"So this contestant, ever keen to win,", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 32)
We 'See' His Poems with a Thrilling Freshnessi"What do we see", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 33)
World Poetry Conference Welcome Poemi"Brothers and Sisters, whether joined or singlish,", Peter Porter , single work poetry humour (p. 34)
A Gadarene Projectioni"Between two pillars of the mind", Peter Porter , single work poetry (p. 35)
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