The Automatic Oracle by Peter Porter
With this new collection, Peter Porter shows his maturity as a poet and displays his ability to work in a variety of forms. The oracle of the title is the English language, with the poet acting as a priest bound to carry messages to the outside world. Porter's themes here are childhood, dreams, painting, history, and most important, words and their responsibilities.Peter Porter was born in Brisbane in 1929. He came to England in 1951 and, apart from short periods as writer-in- residence at English, Scottish, and American Universities, has lived in London ever since. His collections for Oxford poets includes The Automatic Oracle, The Chair of Babel, Collected
Poems, The Cost of Seriousness, Fast Forward, A Porter Selected and Possible Worlds.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780192820884 |
| ISBN 10 | 0192820885 |
| Title | The Automatic Oracle |
| Author | Peter Porter |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1987-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 80 |
| Prizes | Winner of Whitbread Book Awards: Poetry Category 1988 |
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