Afterburner
By: Peter Porter.
Series: Picador poetry
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 77
Description: Afterburner is a thoroughly appropriate title for this fuel injected late work. nowhere has Porter so clearly declared his belief in the poem as an engine for serious thought, which here takes the form of everything from eleoquent disquisition to razor-sharp epigram. From his lengthening perspective and high vantage few are better placed that Porter to give these subtle meditations on life, art, and the social moves - and no one could manage them with such compassion and humour.