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Title:

MAX IS MISSING

By:

Peter Porter

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0330486985

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9780330486989

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Publisher:

PAN MACMILLAN

Pub. date:

9 November, 2001

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Description:

Max is Missing is Peter Porter's first book of the new millennium, and an openly declared 'late work'.

Synopsis:

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".

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Picador

Prizes:

Winner of Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection 2002 Winner of Forward Poetry Prize: Best Collection 2002 Short-listed for Age Book of the Year: Poetry 2002

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