John Tranter
Articles
- John Tranter
An excerpt from an interview with John Tranter by Martin Duwell, primarily focused on Tranter's approach to poetic style and the purpose of poetry.
1 October 1977 - Four Notes on the Practice of Revolution
It's the beginning of winter, 1977. I'm sitting in a freezing room in Brisbane, staring at a typewriter, thinking about revolutions I've just returned from…
1 October 1977 - The Ambiguous Modernist: Themes in the Development of the Poetry of John Tranter
When Martin Duwell asked John Tranter about how he would describe his books' concerns thematically. Tranter replied that while it was possible to treat his…
1 October 1980 - John Tranter & Les Murray
I intend concentrating on two books. John Tranter's Crying in Early Infancy: One Hundred Sonnets (1977), and Les A. Murray's sonnet-novel The Boys Who Stole…
1 May 1982 - Feral Symbolists: Robert Adamson, John Tranter, and the Response to Rimbaud
John Tranter recently pointed out the irony that it was he who was interested in Rimbaud and Robert Adamson who was interested in Mallarme, since…
1 May 1994 - Thoughts on Some Recent Poetry
Haskell examines John Tranter's The Alphabet Murders, as well as recent poems by John Forbes and Robert Adamson.
1 October 1977 - Tranter’s Plots
Tranter's work has consistently engaged problems of deixis (grammatical orientation) and interpretation which, in turn, become problems of showing and telling, of representation and narrative…
1 May 1989 - John Tranter: Absence in Flight
In recent years a number of younger Australian poets have expressed distrust of the notion of poetry as a discourse bearing a moral or social…
1 October 1986 - Les Murray’s Talking Mosaics
Les Murray’s three huge scrapbooks, known collectively as his ‘Great Book,’ were deposited at the National Library of Australia in 2022. They offer salient insights…
19 December 2024
Contributors
- David Brooks
- Theodore Ell
- Dennis Haskell
- Rae Desmond Jones
- Kate Lilley
- Thomas Shapcott
- John Tranter
- Andrew Taylor