A celebration for Peter Porter - an expatriate generation of one, correspondent and host to successive generations of Australian writers - on his seventieth birthday by twenty of his friends: Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, Alan Brownjohn, Geoffrey Burgon, Wendy Cope, Allen Curnow, Ian Duhig, D.J. Enright, U.A. Fanthorpe, Barry Humphries, Clive James, David Malouf, Les Murray, Sean O’Brien, C.K. Stead, George Szirtes, Ann Thwaite, Anthony Thwaite, William Trevor, Kit Wright - a harmonious blend of local and Australian contributors - who have all signed this state. One hundred and thirteen copies printed, this is one of the 26 in quarter cloth and marbled paper boards, not numbered and marked as a contributor's copy.
