John Tranter

John Tranter was born on 29 April 1943 in Cooma, in New South Wales, and attended country schools. A graduate of the University of Sydney in 1970, he worked in publishing, notably in Singapore for Angus and Robertson, and in public radio, where in 1975 he devised a programme about books; he edited the poetry pages of the Bulletin from 1990 to 1993. In 1979 he put together a controversial anthology of new Australian poetry and in 1997 founded the online magazine Jacket, which he edited until 2010. He died in Sydney on 21 April 2023.

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