Goodbye to Peter Porter
A lovely Telegraph obituary this morning of Peter Porter, a poet who made an art of self-deprecation:
Porter himself liked to tell the story of how, when he won the 1983 Duff Cooper Prize, one of his daughters had remarked: “Oh, Daddy, that’s just like you! Why couldn’t you have won the Cooper Prize?”
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"When the novelist's eye falls on a particular stretch of earth, it can transform it for ever": @philiphensher, http://t.co/XWBKR504jO
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RT @TelegraphTravel: Venice: wartime haven on the Grand Canal http://t.co/H87S7bMORS
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RT @urban_achiever: Staycation spinoffs - which is the worst?! I'm going with neighcation: a horse riding holiday. http://t.co/qsGLi05uOs
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RIP Bill O'Hagan, Telegraph journalist and maker of Britain's tastiest sausages: http://t.co/D4zNG6tKVY
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RT @Telegraph: Part two of @mickbrownwriter's series on modern India, with code and design by @iamdanpalmer and @himeshp http://t.co/habyzd…
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My wife to 6-yr-old grandson: "Are you sure you're allowed to take a chainsaw into school?" It IS three inches long and plastic.
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RT @tds153: Luhrmann's Great Gatsby: cinema aspiring to the condition of the vigorously shaken snowglobe.




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