Peter Porter was born on Feb 16 1929 in Brisbane, Australia. Poter full name is in full Peter Neville Frederick Porter . Australian-born British poet whose works are characterized by a formal style and rueful, epigrammatic wit. Porter was educated in Australia and worked as a journalist before settling in 1951 in London, where he worked as a clerk, a bookshop assistant, an advertising copywriter, and a critic.

He is the author of more than 15 collections of poetry, and the editor and translator of several more, including Once Bitten, Twice Bitten (1961), The Automatic Oracle (1987), The Chair of Babel(1992), Dragons in Their Pleasant Palaces (1997), Both Ends Against the Middle(1999), Saving from the Wreck (2001), and Better Than God (2009). Porter edited The Best Australian Poetry (2005) and Selected Poems of Lawrence Durrell (2006) and translated After Martial (1972), a collection based on the poems of the Latin poet Martial. He was awarded The Queen’s Gold Medal For Poetry in 2002. In 2007 he was made a Companion of the Royal Society of Literature. Porter died on 23 April 2010, aged 81, after suffering from liver cancer.