Tag: John Tranter

  • “A dictionary of shelter” —John Tranter, “Lufthansa Flying over violet-crumble seas, eyes bulging as the rockrushes by (a sense of stained-glass futures, a fatal dioramaI’m descending through time with an airman’s precision—the shroud of a cloud’s lop-sided laptop strata slips a little as I glimpse the patchwork, or a field, or a metaphor (andbank (becoming…

  • My poem “Terminal 1: Aer Lingus” has been selected to appear in the just-published Best of Australian Poems 2024 (Puncher and Wattmann/Australian Poetry), edited by Kate Lilley and Shastra Deo.

  • It’s really pleasing to see how Cordite Poetry Review has flourished since Kent MacCarter took the reins back in 2012. Kent has truly injected a new sense of energy to the journal, and has just published the journal’s 50th full issue, NO THEME IV, featuring 50 new poems edited by John Tranter and a whole swag of goodies including…