John Tranter is a leading modern poet. He has published twelve collections of verse, including Selected Poems in 1982, The Floor of Heaven (a book-length sequence of four verse narratives) in 1992, At The Florida , in 1993, Gasoline Kisses (Equipage, Cambridge) in 1997, and Late Night Radio (Polygon, Edinburgh) in 1998, as well as a book of computer-assisted short stories, Different Hands (Folio/Salt), in 1998.

His work appears in the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry. He co-edited the Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry (1991), published in Britain and the US as the Bloodaxe Book of Modern Australian Poetry. He is the editor of the free Internet magazine Jacket, at http://www.jacket.zip.com.au

Here you can explore the world of John Tranter - you can study dozens of his poems, read about his life and about what makes his poetry work, and read his article about computer experiments. You can read interviews with him and various reviews of his books (not all of them favourable!) and look at many photos taken at various stages of his life, the earliest (left) at age four.

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