Abstract
John Tranter’s early poetry reveals a primary stage in the development of an Australian postmodern poetic. The 1976 publication of Tranter’s fourth book, The alphabet murders, marks a critical moment in that history – a febrile, fatal rendezvous with tradition and experimentation, identity and alienation, centrality and provincialism. Tranter has always harboured a desire to ’make it new’ as an Australian, English-speaking poet directing keen attention to European and American turbines of literary innovation and power.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The Salt Companion to John Tranter |
| Editors | Rod Mengham |
| Place of Publication | U.K. |
| Publisher | Salt |
| Pages | 69-95 |
| Number of pages | 27 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781876857769 |
| Publication status | Published - 2010 |
Keywords
- Tranter, John E.
- postmodernism in literature