Afterburner

the long version

Afterburner is a thoroughly appropriate title for this fuel injected late work. nowhere has Porter so clearly declared his belief in the poem as an engine for serious thought, which here takes the form of everything from eleoquent disquisition to razor-sharp epigram. From his lengthening perspective and high vantage few are better placed that Porter to give these subtle meditations on life, art, and the social moves - and no one could manage them with such compassion and humour.