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'My first real encounter with John Tranter's work. outside the miscellaneous poetry journals that somehow found their way into the local public library, came about unexpectedly enough through the efforts of John Millett, editor of the soon-to-be-defunct Pomp Australia. Millen, successor to Crate Perry. was liberal with the Poetry AuStrulia and South Head Press backlist and, along with books by Bruce Bearer, Noel Stock, Jennifer Maiden. Douglas Stewart and others. sent me a copy of Tranter's debut collection. Parallax (1970)...' (Introduction)
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Epigraph: Well architects use pastiche -It sounds I ike a brand of glue. doesn't lir- then merle. makers use montage, writers and artists and primitive shaman, use bricolage- gluing things together. The word 'collage(' from the French word for 'glue'. You see it for example in lames Joyce's Ulysses. where Joyce borrows forma -the stage play, the music hall. the romantic novelette. Ina sensehe's parodying them, but he's also using them. And you see It In Eliot's. The Waste Land, and In pound's Cantor. It's a tactic of classical modernism.
-John Tran ter. Interviewed by John Kinsella.1991
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- Parallax 1970 single work poetry
- The Alphabet Murders : Notes From a Work in Progress 1976 single work poetry
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