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John Tranter

Desert Mother by Philip Collier

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October 1982, no. 45
John Tranter reviews 'Desert Mother' by Philip Collier

Desert Mother is a collection of poems from a West Australian writer in his late twenties who now lives in Sydney. Many of the poems in it have a double layer of nostalgia – a personal one, for a lost adolescence, and a general one for small towns left on the edge of history.

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Selected Poems by John Tranter & Flowers of Emptiness. by Rudi Krausemann

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September 1982, no. 44

I’m a speedy reader, a rapid degutter of poems, yet it took me days to read John Tranter’s Selected Poems. This poetry is so packed with meaning, with metaphor, so inventive, intelligent, and funny it’s impossible to hurry. It left me, though I’d read most of it before, wishing for a Complete Poems to fill the gaps.

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The New Australian Poetry edited by John Tranter

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February–March 1980, no. 18
Thomas Shapcott reviews 'The New Australian Poetry' edited by John Tranter

The intention of this anthology is to sharpen our understanding of what was distinctive in the poetry of ‘the generation of ‘68’ (Tranter’s label).

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