Possible Worlds (Porter collection)

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Possible Worlds
Author Peter Porter
CountryAustralia
Language English
GenrePoetry collection
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication date
 1989
Media typePrint
Pages70 pp
Awards ALS Gold Medal 1990
ISBN 0192826603
Preceded byA Porter Selected: Poems 1959–1989 
Followed byThe Chair of Babel 

Possible Worlds is a poetry collection by Australian poet and writer Peter Porter, published by Oxford University Press, in 1989. [1]

Contents

The first edition contains 42 poems with some being published here for the first time. [1]

Dedication

Contents

Contents:

Awards

Critical reception

Writing in Westerly Lawrence Bourke noted: "Possible Worlds which carries the Poetry Book Society Recommendation is a delight. As with other Porter books the reading of anyone poem gains by reading it alongside others, where recurrent ideas, images and key words illuminate, refer to and sometimes contradict each other, and the difficulties if not entirely massaged away, smooth out enough to reward and entice to further rereading...Unlike those who look for geographical landfall Porter cannot rest with the literal (and limited) discovery; there are always further reaches of self and art, further "possible worlds"; and with Porter much troubled by death since his first book as a thirty-two year old, the tension between rest and voyaging is no less challenged in Possible Worlds published in his sixtieth year." [3]

Publication history

After the initial publication of the collection by Oxford University Press in 1989, [4] it has not been reprinted.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Austlit — Possible Worlds by Peter Porter". Austlit. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
  2. ↑ "ALS Gold Medal — Previous Winners". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
  3. ↑ ""Reviews"" (PDF). Westerly, June 1990, p76. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
  4. ↑ "Possible Worlds (OUP 1989)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
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