| John Tranter | |
| Born | April 29, 1943  Cooma, New South Wales |
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| Occupation | Poet, publisher, editor |
| Known for | Poetry |
| Spouse | Lyn |
| Children | Two children |
| Website http://johntranter.com |
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John Ernest Tranter (born 1943) is an Australian poet, publisher and editor. Events 1429 - Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orleans. Year 1943 ( MCMXLIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Cooma is For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. A poet is a person who writes Poetry. Etymology From the Ancient greek: ποιέω, poieō: "I make or compose" Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of Literature or Information &ndash the activity of making information available for public view Editing Language, Images or Sound through correction condensation organization and other modifications in various media He has a long list of achievements in writing, publishing and broadcasting. His achievements include publishing more than a dozen books of poetry; devising, with Jan Garrett, the long running ABC radio program Books and Writing; and founding in 1997, the internet quarterly literary magazine Jacket which he also publishes and edits. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly abbreviated to the 'ABC' is Australia's national public broadcaster. Jacket is an award-winning on-line literary periodical edited by the Australian poet John Tranter. [1]
Tranter's significance to Australian poetry has been recognised by the Australia Council, which awarded him a Creative Arts Fellowship in 1990, and by fellow poets "who acknowledge his role as innovator and experimentalist". The Australia Council, informally known as the Australia Council for the Arts, is the official Arts council of the Government of Australia. [2]
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Life
Tranter was born in Cooma, New South Wales and attended country schools, then took his BA in 1970 after attending university sporadically. Cooma is He has worked mainly in publishing, teaching and radio production, and has travelled widely, making more than twenty reading tours to venues in the U.S., Britain and Europe since the mid-1980s. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located He has lived in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane in Australia, and overseas in London, Cambridge, Singapore, Florida, and San Francisco. Sydney (ˈsɪdniː is the most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 4 Melbourne ( is the second most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 3 Brisbane ( is the state capital of Queensland. Brisbane is the third most populous city in Australia and the most populous city of Queensland London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. The city of Cambridge (ˈkeɪmbrɪdʒ is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England Singapore Florida ( is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city He now lives in Sydney, where he is a company director (with his wife Lyn) of Australian Literary Management, a leading literary agency. He is married to Lyn, with adult children Kirsten and Leon, and is presently (2008) in the final year of a doctoral programme at the University of Wollongong. The University of Wollongong (UOW is a public university with approximately 22000 students located in the coastal city of Wollongong, which is 80 kilometres south of
Literary career
In 1975 he co-designed the first Books & Writing radio program for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, a program format which was still going strong thirty years later. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly abbreviated to the 'ABC' is Australia's national public broadcaster. During 1987 and 1988 John Tranter was in charge of the ABC Radio National weekly two-hour arts program Radio Helicon, and from 1990 to 1993 he was the poetry editor of the Sydney-based business/ arts weekly The Bulletin. ABC Radio Networks, known as ABC Radio for short is an American Radio network. The Bulletin is a discontinued Australian weekly Magazine that was published in Sydney from 1880 until January 2008
He has received many fellowships and other grants, and has been a visiting scholar at various institutions, from Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Arts at the Australian National University to writer-in-residence at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida and at Cambridge University in England. The Australian National University, commonly abbreviated to ANU, is a public Research university situated in Canberra, Australia. Rollins College is a liberal arts college located in Winter Park Florida, United States, a suburb of Orlando Florida. Winter Park is a city in Orange County, Florida, United States. The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University) located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the He has published over twenty volumes of poetry, including a Selected Poems (Hale and Iremonger, Sydney, 1982) and a Urban Myths: 210 Poems: New and Selected University of Queensland Press in 2006. The University of Queensland (UQ is one of Australia's premier learning and research institutions
John Tranter's Urban Myths: 210 Poems: New and Selected, published by the University of Queensland Press, won the Victorian Premier's Prize for poetry in 2006, the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Kenneth Slessor Prize in 2007, the South Australian Premier's Awards John Bray prize for poetry in 2008 and the South Australian Premier's Awards Premier's Prize for the best book overall (2006 and 2007) in 2008, his Under Berlin, published by the University of Queensland Press, won the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry (the New South Wales State Literary Award for Poetry) in 1989, and At The Florida won the Melbourne Age ‘Book of the Year’ award for poetry in 1993. The University of Queensland (UQ is one of Australia's premier learning and research institutions The University of Queensland (UQ is one of Australia's premier learning and research institutions The Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry is awarded annually as part of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards for a book of collected poems or for a single poem of substantial Other recent books are The Floor of Heaven (Harper Collins, 1992), a book-length sequence of four verse narratives, the poetry collections Late Night Radio (Polygon, Edinburgh, UK, 1998), Heart Print (Salt, Cambridge, UK, 2001), Different Hands (Folio/ Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Cambridge and Western Australia, 1998), a collection of seven experimental computer-assisted prose pieces, Borrowed Voices (Shoestring Press, Nottingham, 2002), a dozen reinterpretations of poems by other poets, Studio Moon and Trio (both Salt Publications, UK, 2003). Edinburgh ( ˈɛdɪnb(ərə Dùn Èideann) is the Capital of Scotland and is its second largest city after Glasgow.
He compiled and edited The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry with Philip Mead in 1991. The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry (Publish in the U Earlier anthologies include the controversial The New Australian Poetry (Makar, Brisbane, 1979), and a selection of ninety-four poems from the Australian bicentennial poetry competition in 1988, published by ABC Books as The Tin Wash Dish.
In 2004 he built a free prototype internet site that presented biographical and bibliographical information about over seventy Australian poets as well as poems, book reviews and interviews. In 2005 he handed the project over to a consortium consisting of the University of Sydney English Department, the University of Sydney Library and the Copyright Agency Limited. The University of Sydney (informally Sydney Uni or USyd) is the oldest university in Australia The University of Sydney (informally Sydney Uni or USyd) is the oldest university in Australia In 2006 the consortium was granted half a million dollars by the Australian Research Council to further extend the work as a research project as the Australian Poetry Research Internet Library (APRIL) with an internet site hosted by the University of Sydney Library, at http://april.edu.au
Awards
- 2008: South Australian Premier's Awards Premier's Prize for the best book overall 2006 and 2007 for Urban Myths: 210 Poems: New and Selected
- 2008: South Australian Premier's Awards John Bray prize for poetry for Urban Myths: 210 Poems: New and Selected
- 2007: New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Kenneth Slessor Prize for Urban Myths: 210 Poems: New and Selected
- 2006: Victorian Premier's Literary Award C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry Prize for for Urban Myths: 210 Poems: New and Selected
- 1993: The Age Book of the Year Award for Poetry for At the Florida
- 1989: New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Kenneth Slessor Prize for Under Berlin
- 1988: Grace Leven Prize for Poetry for Under Berlin
Selected bibliography
- 1970: Parallax, South Head Press
- 1973: Red Movie and other poems, Angus & Robertson
- 1973: The Blast Area Gargoyle Poets number 13), Makar Press
- 1976: The Alphabet Murders (notes from a work in progress), Angus & Robertson
- 1977: Crying in Early Infancy: 100 Sonnets, Makar Press
- 1979: Dazed in the Ladies Lounge, Island Press
- 1983: Selected Poems, Hale & Iremonger
- 1993: Under Berlin, University of Queensland Press
- 1993: The Floor of Heaven, HarperCollins/Angus & Robertson
- 1993: At The Florida, University of Queensland Press
- 1998: Late Night Radio Polygon Press
- 2006: Urban Myths: 210 Poems: New and Selected, University of Queensland Press
As editor
- 2007: The Best Australian Poetry 2007, guest editor, University of Queensland Press
Notes
References
- Australian Society of Authors John Tranter - Biographical Note Accessed: 2007-07-27
- Wilde, W. The Australian Research Council ( ARC) is the Australian Government’s main agency for allocating research funding to academics and researchers in Australian The University of Sydney (informally Sydney Uni or USyd) is the oldest university in Australia The South Australian Premier's Awards (also known as the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature) - were established in 1986 The South Australian Premier's Awards (also known as the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature) - were established in 1986 The New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards were established in 1979 by the New South Wales Premier Neville Wran. The Victorian Premier's Literary Awards were created by the Victorian Governmentwith the aim of raising the profile of contemporary creative writing and Australia's The C J Dennis Prize for Poetry is awarded annually as part of the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards for a significant selection of new work by a poet published in a book The Age Book of the Year Awards are annual literary awards presented by Melbourne 's The Age newspaper The New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards were established in 1979 by the New South Wales Premier Neville Wran. The Grace Leven Prize for Poetry is an annual award given in the name of Grace Leven who died in 1922 Events release of Tomfoolery, an animated film directed by Joy Batchelor and John Halas, based on the nonsense verse of Edward Lear Events Canadian poet and author Michael Ondaatje adapts his 1970 book of poetry The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, into a play which Events Canadian poet and author Michael Ondaatje adapts his 1970 book of poetry The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, into a play which Events Two poems written in 1965 by Mao Zedong just before the Cultural Revolution including "Two Birds A Dialogue" are published on January 1 Events British publication Gay News successfully prosecuted in the United Kingdom for blasphemy and libel for publishing James Kirkup's " Events The Kenyon Review is restarted by Kenyon College 10 years after the original publication was closed Events Works published in English Australia Les Murray, The People's Otherworld, winner of the 1984 Kenneth Slessor Events January 20 &mdash Maya Angelou reads "On the Pulse of Morning" at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton T Events January 20 &mdash Maya Angelou reads "On the Pulse of Morning" at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton T Events January 20 &mdash Maya Angelou reads "On the Pulse of Morning" at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton T Events Samizdat poetry magazine founded in Chicago (it will run until 2004) Events French public notary Patrick Huet unveils Pieces of Hope to the Echo of the World in Lyon. Events March 5: a car bomb was exploded on Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad. The Best Australian Poetry 2007 (ISBN 9780702236075 is an anthology of poetry published by UQP in 2007. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1214 - Battle of Bouvines: In France, Philip II of France defeats John of England. , Hooton, J. & Andrews, B (1994) The Oxford Companion of Australian Literature 2nd ed. South Melbourne, Oxford University Press
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| NAME | Tranter, John |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Contemporary Australian poet and editor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 29, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cooma, New South Wales, Australia |
| DATE OF DEATH | |
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