AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS & WRITERS FOR PEACE
Yeats at Bondi and Hawaiian Haiku by John Tranter
[Above] Photo of John Tranter by John Tranter, 1987.
John Tranter
About the Poet John Tranter
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John Tranter is a leading modern poet. 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 has worked mainly in publishing and radio production for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and has travelled widely, making reading tours of the United States, England and Europe. He has lived at various times in Melbourne, Singapore, Brisbane and London, and now lives in Sydney. He has received several senior fellowships and other grants from the Literature Board of the Australia Council. Fourteen collections of his verse have been published. His work appears in the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry. In 1992 he edited (with Philip Mead) the Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry, a 470-page anthology, published in Britain and the USA as the Bloodaxe Book of Modern Australian Poetry. He is the editor of the free Internet magazine Jacket. |
[Above] Photo of John Tranter by John Tranter, 1987.
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