"Peter Porter has been both proponent and advocate of a vigorous and thoughtful writing, which, to borrow his own words, can "take up the baton from Auden's 30s generation and bring back intellectualism and populism". One might therefore have imagined that this latest book, published to coincide with his 80th birthday, should be read primarily in the retrospective light of the existing work. But nothing could further from the truth. Better Than God is a densely fleshed book by a poet at the height of his powers."
"Of Better than God, Mr Porter said: ""God's work in the world, if it exists, is only to be seen through the people we are who act it out. And so in a way, whether we invented him or he invented us, we have to live the life given to a human being on earth. And we are so good at interpreting it and making it work. (So) it is really in praise of human endeavour and imagination."
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"Drunk at the matinee" is a collection of candid poetry about stupid shit that we all experience from day to day.
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