John Tranter, Berlin, 2002
Photo courtesy the author
John Tranter: Contents page
John Tranter (b.1943) was (like A.D. Hope) born in Cooma, New South Wales. He grew up on a farm on the NSW South Coast and took a BA in 1970. Since his first book, Parallax (1970), he has gone on to write nearly twenty books of poetry and to compile four anthologies and collections of other writers’ work totalling over a thousand pages. He co-edited the popular Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry (1992), and is the founding editor of Jacket, set up in October 1997, which the UK Guardian described as ‘the prince of online poetry magazines.’ He is married, with two adult children. He has travelled widely and now lives in Sydney where he is a company director and the founding publisher of this site.
Material available on this site:
A selection of poems: Christopher Brennan (1870-1932) / By Blue Ontario’s Shore / A Jackeroo in Kensington / The Creature From the Black Lagoon / The Un-American Women / Stratocruiser / Poolside / Sonnet : Lullaby / Backyard / The Popular Mysteries
A two-page interview with The Reader magazine, 2004, about the art and craft of poetry
A four-page biography of John Tranter
John Tranter reviews New Devil, New Parish, poems by Alan Wearne; UQP Paperback Poets Second Series, $1.50 (paper). First published in The Australian, 11 June 1977.
John Tranter reviews Tactics, by Jennifer Maiden; Wild Honey, by Paul Kavanagh; Creekwater Journal, by Robert Gray: Paperback Poets Series 2, University of Queensland Press, $3.50 and $1.50 (paper). First published in The Australian 26 April 1975, Weekend page 6
John Tranter reviews Translations From The Albatross, poems by Robert Harris. This review was first published in The Australian in the late 1970s.
In the Survey Article section: ‘The Poetry Explosion’ — Virginia Osborne introduces six talented young Sydney poets, Vogue Australia, April 1971 (Robert Adamson, John Tranter, Michael Dransfield, Martin Johnston, Terry Larsen, and Peter Skrzynecki.)
Off-site:
John Tranter’s homepage at http://johntranter.com/ offers over 400 pages of poems, essays, interviews by and interviews with John Tranter, book reviews of his work and reviews by him of books by others, a biography (the same as above), a bibliography and dozens of photographs.
Off-site:
Early writing (1968–78) archived on Sydney University Library’s SETIS site at http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/tranter-je/index.html — some 200 pages of material including two complete books, dozens of early reviews, a hoax magazine and a 1966 passport.
Off-site: Further poems and reviews and other texts by and about this author, or that mention this author’s name, can be found in Jacket magazine on the Internet: follow this link and type the author’s name into the Jacket Search engine.
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