Poetry

On the evening of Friday 18th September, the conference decamped to an Irish venue in the centre of Tours to hear two of Britain’s best-known poets, George Szirtes et Peter Porter, read some of their work. Peter Porter was bom in Australia in 1929, but has lived in England since 1951. Along with Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, he had already established himself in the 1960s, with his highly formal verse and his dry, epigrammatic wit, as one of the leading figures on the British poetry scene. Now..