[»] Eighteen early ‘Fugitive Poems’ with notes by the author
[»] A PDF file of the book The Floor of Heaven, a collection of four loosely-linked narrative poems. This file is free to read in its entirety on this site, but it cannot be printed. Printed copies of this book can be purchased from the publisher’s website:
http://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/book_details.php?id=0975698001
or from the University of Queensland Bookshop mail order department: phone (617+) 3346 9434, fax (617+) 3365 1988 and email at
benc[ât]uqp.uq.edu.au
The book can also be purchased on the internet:
http://www.bookshop.uq.edu.au/
‘A rattling good read’ — JOHN ASHBERY
‘The Floor of Heaven is a tour de force, a devious and profoundly subversive conjuring trick by a poet writing at the peak of his powers… the book pulses with a curious resonance… reminded me irresistibly of the best moments in Twin Peaks… a strange lyricism.’
— ANDREW RIEMER, Sydney Morning Herald
[»] A PDF file of the book Urban Myths: 210 Poems: New and Selected. This file is free to read in its entirety on this site, but it cannot be printed. Printed copies of the book can be purchased from the publisher’s website:
http://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/book_details.php?id=9780702235573
or from the University of Queensland Bookshop mail order department: phone (617+) 3346 9434, fax (617+) 3365 1988 and email at
benc[ât]uqp.uq.edu.au
The book can also be purchased on the bookshop internet site:
http://www.bookshop.uq.edu.au/
John Tranter, New York City, April 2008, photo © 2008 Charles Bernstein/PennSound.
Off-site: John Tranter recorded in the USA: «Close Listening» — readings and conversations at WPS1.Org John Tranter, New York, April 3, 2008, Reading from Urban Myths: 210 Poems: New and Selected (24:32): MP3
Off-site: In conversation with Charles Bernstein
(29:15): MP3
Close Listening produced and recorded by Charles Bernstein ©2008 John Tranter and Charles Bernstein
Off-site: Poetry reading: at the Kelly Writers House, Philadelphia March 30,
2005
1. "I Know a Man," by Robert Creeley (0:24):
MP3
Off-site: Poetry readings: in New York City, April 2008: Complete reading (53:38):
MP3
2. Invitation to America (1:57):
MP3
3. Miss Proust (2:47):
MP3
4. After Laforgue (1:46):
MP3
5. Where the Boys Are (0:52):
MP3
6. Benzedrine (1:45):
MP3
7. Transatlantic (2:13):
MP3
8. The Waiting Room (1:40):
MP3
9. Poolside (1:09):
MP3
10. God on a Bicycle (1:02):
MP3
11. Aurora (1:49):
MP3
12. Moonshine Sonata (1:04):
MP3
13. Voodoo (2:00):
MP3.
[»] A PDF file of the book Crying in Early Infancy — 100 Sonnets, Makar Press, St Lucia, 1977. This file is free to read in its entirety on this site, but it cannot be printed. You can order a printed copy of the omnibus volume Trio, which contains this book, from Gleebooks in Australia: http://www.gleebooks.com.au/
or from the publisher, Salt Publishing, in Cambridge UK:
http://www.saltpublishing.com/
Trio is a 162-page omnibus collection of three books of poetry by John Tranter published over a period of wide-ranging stylistic experiment in the 1970s: Red Movie, his second book, published in 1972, Crying in Early Infancy, a collection of one hundred mainly free-verse sonnets (1977), and Dazed in the Ladies Lounge (1979). It is only available in printed form from bookshops.
[»] A PDF file of the book The Blast Area, Makar Press, St Lucia, 1974. This file is free to read in its entirety on this site, and may be printed. The book is now out of print.
John Tranter’s first book Parallax (1970) may be read on the University of Sydney Library SETIS site here: [»]
One of my poems is titled ‘Storm over Sydney’. This photo would serve as an illustration:
Balmain, Sydney, December 2007, photo John Tranter
E N D The Internet address of this page is http://johntranter.com/poems.shtml