Max is Missing
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Pan Macmillan
Published:9th Nov '01
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Few poets now writing share Porter’s sense of the big picture, his ability to read the small event against the waxings and wanings of culture and empire.
Whether these poems look at Europe through the strata of its Golden Ages, revisit the Australia of his childhood or turn their surreal wit to the quieter domestic landscape, together they amount to a sustained meditation on the spirit that bears comparison with the late poems of Wallace Stevens. Magisterial in its perspective and possessed of a rare intellectual sanity, Max is Missing is Porter’s most charged and direct work since The Cost of Seriousness.
'In my house his Collected Poems is to be found, not on the poetry shelves (between Pope and Pushkin), but on the kitchen sideboard. His is a voice I value and honour. I need its nourishment daily' Martin Amis
- Winner of Forward Prize for Poetry Best Collection 2002 (UK)
ISBN: 9780330486989
Dimensions: 196mm x 129mm x 8mm
Weight: 117g
96 pages