Title: Afterburner
First published: 2004
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.
Subjects: Poetry (poetic works by one author), Literary collections, English poetry
LC classification: PR9619.3.P57 A68 2004