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Australian Arts

Dragons, broomsticks and whatnot

6 May 2023

9:00 AM

6 May 2023

9:00 AM

It was saddening to hear of the death of the poet John Tranter the other week. For those of us who started literary magazines in the 1980s John was a welcoming figure as well as a poet who turned away from the well-made verse that was often being produced in the universities with its neat rhythms and rhymes and its parade of careful ambiguities.

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