John Tranter
John Tranter | |
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Tranter with his grandson in 2005 | |
| Born | 29 April 1943 Cooma, New South Wales, Australia |
| Died | 21 April 2023 (aged 79) Sydney, Australia |
| Occupation(s) | Poet, publisher, editor |
| Known for | Poetry |
John Ernest Tranter (29 April 1943 – 21 April 2023) was an Australian poet, publisher and editor. He 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".