[11] He is chair of the International Booker Prize 2025 committee,[12] is a 2025 Southbank Centre Associate Artist,[13] and works with the library at HMP Erlestoke as their writer in residence 2024-5.
[14][15] In 2024 Porter joined Cillian Murphy, Mary Hickson, Bryce Dessner and Billy MagFhlionn as a co-curator of the Sounds From A Safe Harbour Festival in Cork.
[16] Grief Is the Thing with Feathers is a hybrid of prose and poetic styles about a crow who visits a grieving family of a Ted Hughes scholar and his two young boys.
[24] Grief Is the Thing with Feathers was adapted into a play of the same name, directed by Enda Walsh and starring Cillian Murphy, which premiered in Dublin on 25 March 2019 and has been performed in London and New York.
[25] In an interview, Porter details the experience of adapting Grief for the stage: "[w]ith both Cillian and Enda, the goal was to make the production as true as it could be to the book.
[27] The play was a New York Times Critic's Pick, with Ben Brantley writing that the performance "beautifully evoke[s] the way in which the whole world seems apocalyptic after a personal tragedy".
[30] Despite Cumberbatch's initial scepticism regarding a film adaptation, he told Deadline he was won over by Southern's script: "Dylan has handled the deftness of Max’s kinetic poetry masterfully.