John Tranter

John Tranter’s two latest books, Urban Myths: 210 Poems: New and Selected and Starlight: 150 Poems, have together won six major Australian awards. He is the author of more than twenty collections of verse and has edited six anthologies. An Honorary Associate in the University of Sydney School of Letters and an honorary fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, he is the founder of the online magazine Jacket and the Australian Poetry Library, which publishes over 40,000 Australian poems online.