Peter Porter's career was studded with accolades
Peter Porter, a winner of both the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry and the Forward Prize, has died at the age of 81 after being treated for cancer.
The Australian-born poet, who moved to England in 1951, worked as a bookseller while he developed his literary career.
His first collection, Once Bitten, Twice Bitten, was published in 1961.
He won the Forward Prize, the UK's biggest annual award, for Max Is Missing in 2002, the same year he was honoured with the Queen's Medal.
In 1968, he became a full-time poet, journalist, reviewer and broadcaster.
His 1978 anthology The Cost of Seriousness, written after the death of his first wife in 1974, was regarded by critics as his best.
His 2004 collection Afterburner was shortlisted for the TS Eliot prize, while last year's Better Than God was shortlisted for the 2009 Forward Prize.
Following his Forward Prize win, judge and National Poetry Day founder William Sieghart described Porter as "one of the most distinguished poets at work in Britain today".
Mr Sieghart described Max Is Missing as "contemporary, witty, urbane and vibrant".
, an Australian-born British poet, has died at the age of 81 after suffering from  for a year. The poet was born in Brisbane, Australia in 1929 and moved to London, England in 1951. His first collection of works, entitled "Once Bitten, Twice Bitten", was first published in 1961. He went on to become a broadcaster, reviewer, journalist and a full-time poet in the year 1968.

Porter created "The Cost of Seriousness" in 1978, after his first wife committed suicide in 1974. Some of the prizes he won for his creations included the Duff Cooper prize, the Forward prize — for "Max is Missing" — the Whitbread poetry award and the Queen's Gold Medal for poetry. "Afterburner", created by Peter in 2004, was also shortlisted for a . One of his latest collections, "Better than God", was on the shortlist for the Forward Prize in 2009.

, another English poet, a friend and a colleauge to Peter Porter, stated that he "never quite knew where he belonged". He stated: "In Australia he was considered English, and in England he was considered Australian. He sort of floated." Thwaite would describe Porter as "one of the finest poets of our time".