A birthday book for a poet - 'Paeans for Peter Porter' was a secret production of a celebration for Porter on his 70th birthday by 20 of his friends.
Contributors include: Julian Barnes, Les Murray, David Malouf, Martin Amis, Barry Humphries, Wendy Cope, Clive James and thirteen others.
'...God bless a man who had so much to show us,
We should thank God he found the time to know us,' wrote Clive James.
'...Master poet, Peter, you're this rock
tickled by roses in their climb;
you're our blue-edged flag, our fore-runner
first off the adzed blocks of home...,' wrote Les Murray.
One of 75 copies (total edition 113), this one unnumbered and marked 'contributor's copy'.
