Peter Porter, a leader of both a Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry as well as a Forward Prize, has died at a age of 81 after being treated for cancer.
The Australian-born poet, who changed to England in 1951, worked as a bookseller whilst he developed his literary career.
His initial collection, Once Bitten, Twice Bitten, was published in 1961.
He won a Forward Prize, a UK's biggest annual award, for Max Is Missing in 2002, a same year he was celebrated with a Queen's Medal.
In 1968, he became a full-time poet, journalist, reviewer as well as broadcaster.
His 1978 collection of works The Cost of Seriousness, written after a genocide of his initial wife in 1974, was regarded by critics as his best.
His 2004 pick up Afterburner was shortlisted for a TS Eliot prize, whilst final year's Better Than God was shortlisted for a 2009 Forward Prize.
Following his Forward Prize win, decider as well as National Poetry Day owner William Sieghart described Porter as "one of a many distinguished poets at work in Britain today".
Mr Sieghart described Max Is Missing as "contemporary, witty, amiable as well as vibrant".
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