John Tranter, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Contemporary Australian poet and editor
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Place of Birth: Cooma, New South Wales, Australia
About John Tranter
- John Ernest Tranter (born 29 April 1943) is an Australian poet, publisher and editor.
- He has published more than twenty 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 published and edited until 2010, when he gave it to the University of Pennsylvania.The Australia Council awarded him a Creative Arts Fellowship in 1990; some Australian poets "acknowledge his role as innovator and experimentalist".
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