Jacket’s links to John Tranter sites

John Tranter’s homepage is the place to start, at http://johntranter.com/
On this site you can explore John Tranter’s writing and its cultural background. At last count there were more than four hundred printed pages of material, including ninety pages of poems, ten reviews of his various books, ten book reviews and eleven prose articles by John Tranter, two short stories, John Tranter’s interviews with Robert Adamson, John Ashbery, Roy Fisher, Kenneth Koch, and Bruce Beaver, three interviews with John Tranter (by Ted Slade, John Kinsella and Kate Lilley), and over a hundred image files including many photographs.

The University Library at the University of Sydney has a free research site devoted to John Tranter’s early poetry, including complete electronic editions of his first book Parallax, his 1977 book Crying in Early Infancy — 100 Sonnets, and dozens of reviews and other documents from the period, at: http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/tranter/

Twenty-seven poems from 1970 to the present, at the Australian Society of Authors Internet site, at http://www.asauthors.org/web_of_poets/Tranter/poems/index.html

Three poems and a thirty-page interview with John Tranter by John Kinsella, at the Electronic Poetry Center at the State University of New York in Buffalo, at http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors/tranter/3poems-interview.html

Seven poems in Eye Dialect magazine, Issue Four, Spring 2001, at http://www.contemporarypoetry.com/dialect/issuefour.htm

Sixteen early “fugitive” poems on the OzLit Australian Literature site at http://www.vicnet.net.au/~ozlit/edit9704.html

Three poems and a bio note, in the Booksmith Reader magazine, from the site of the Booksmith book store in San Francisco, at
http://www.booksmith.com/reader/tranter.html

An article by John Tranter in PostModernCulture (an Internet magazine) on computer analysis and reconstruction of text, with examples of computer poetry by “john_ashbery” and “matthew_arnold”, at
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/pmc/text-only/issue.992/pop-cult.992

John Tranter, New York, 1997
Photograph copyright © John Tranter, 1997

An interview and three poems (A Jackeroo In Kensington, The Un-American Women, and The Revolutionaries) in The Poetry Kit Magazine at http://www.poetrykit.org/iv98/tranter.htm

Four reverse haibun (Family Scent, Percentage Macedonian, Snap, Snip) in Number Two of the East Village Poetry Web in July 1998, at
http://www.theeastvillage.com/t2/tranter/p1.htm

Three poems and RealAudio recordings of the poems being read out aloud (‘3-D’, ‘Moonshine’, ‘The Colors of the Days’) in Issue Four of the Cortland Review at http://www.cortlandreview.com/issuefour/tranter4.htm

The poem “Backyard”, in the 1998 “Holiday Special” issue of the Cortland Review at http://www.cortlandreview.com/features/holiday98/tranter.htm

Guy Shahar interviews John Tranter in New York City in 1998, in the September 1998 issue of the Cortland Review at http://www.cortlandreview.com/features/sept98/index.html

‘The Left Hand of Capitalism’ — an essay by John Tranter about the revolutionary changes publishing has gone through in the last few years, and why he decided to publish Jacket in this format, at:
http://jacketmagazine.com/lefthand.html

...as well, Jacket magazine features many of his reviews of other writers’ books and his interviews with other writers.
     John Tranter is the Publisher and Editor of Jacket magazine. He has published sixteen collections of verse, including Gasoline Kisses from Equipage in Cambridge (UK) in 1997 and Late Night Radio from Polygon (University of Edinburgh Press, 1998), a collection of stories based on computer-generated prose, Different Hands, with Folio/Fremantle Arts Centre Press (1998), Heart Print (Salt Publications, Cambridge, 2001), and Studio Moon (Salt Publications, Cambridge, 2003, forthcoming) . His work appears in the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry. He co-edited the Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry, published in Britain and the US as the Bloodaxe Book of Modern Australian Poetry.

You can order John Tranter’s books directly from the Internet. Choose the bookstore closest to you, and select the live link...

• Around the world — see Jacket's bookstores pages
• In Sydney, Australia — Gleebooks at http://www.gleebooks.com.au
• In Melbourne, Australia — Readings at http://www.readings.com.au/
• In Paris, France — The Village Voice Bookshop at http://www.paris-anglo.com/clients/vvoice/html/info.html
• In Britain — The Internet Bookshop at http://www.bookshop.co.uk