John Tranter papers, 1962-1972

MLMSS 2453

fonds

1962-1972

422778

4 boxes of textual material

John Tranter, poet, born Cooma, 1943. He spent his youth on a farm on the south-east coast of Australia, attended country schools, and took his BA in 1970 after attending university sporadically. He edited the poetry magazines Transit new poetry (1968-1969) and Free grass (1968), a hoax magazine.
He has worked mainly in publishing, teaching and radio production, and has travelled widely, making reading tours of the United States, Britain and Europe. He has lived at various times in Melbourne, Singapore, Brisbane, London, Florida and San Francisco, and now lives in Sydney where he is a company director.
Tranter worked for Angus & Robertson (1971-1973) as senior Asian editor, based Sydney and Singapore. He was producer of the Abc radio drama and features division, Brisbane, 1975-1977.
His published collections include Parallax and other poems (1970), Red movie and other poems (1972), The Alphabet murders (1976), Crying in early infancy 100 sonnets (1977), Dazed in theladies' lounge (1979), Selected poems (1982), Gloria (1986) and Under Berlin new poems (1988).
He has received several senior fellowships and other grants from the Literature Board of the Australia Council, and a visiting residency at Cambridge University, England, in 2001 and 2002. Twenty collections of his verse have been published, including The Floor of Heaven, a book-length sequence of four verse narratives (Harper Collins 1992 and Arc, UK, 2001), Late Night Radio (Polygon, Edinburgh, 1998), Different Hands, a collection of seven experimental prose pieces (Folio/Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1998), Heart Print (Salt Publishing, UK, 2000), Studio Moon and Trio (both Salt Publications, UK, 2003). His work appears in the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry.
In 1992 he edited (with Philip Mead) the Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry, an anthology, published in Britain and the USA as the Bloodaxe Book of Modern Australian Poetry.
He lives and works in Sydney and is the editor of the free Internet magazine Jacket, at: http://jacketmagazine.com

Reference:
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