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Posted on 2013-05-232013-05-23 by John Tranter

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Pages, That is, Contents

  • Background-etc
  • Black Gold, Chapter 08
  • Black Gold, Chapter 12
  • Black Gold, Chapter 15
  • FONTS
    • Caslon: a literary typeface
    • Inventing Equity
    • Reviving Caslon, by William Berkson
  • Grants and Tours
  • Illustrations
  • John Tranter: The Malley Variations
  • LitReports-copies
  • MENU-items
    • 3: About this Journal
    • 4: Copyright
    • MENU 1: Front Page
    • MENU 2: Contact Me + Privacy Note
    • Michael-Dransfield, 1948-1973:
      • Dransfield: Poetry Explosion, 1971
      • Dransfield: Two poems by John Tranter
      • MENU 5: My Main Site
  • Novel: Black Gold / Chapter 16
  • Novel: Black Gold / Chapter 17
    • Prose / Novel: Black Gold
      • Prose: / Novel: Black Gold / Chapter 01
      • Reviews
        • Dransfield: Coroner’s Report, 1973
        • John Tranter reviews David Malouf, 1974
          • Black Gold, Chapter 22
            • Novel: Black Gold / Chapter 21
        • John Tranter reviews Michael Dransfield, 1987
        • John Tranter reviews Peter Porter, 1995
        • John Tranter reviews The Vernacular Republic, by Les Murray, 1977
        • Martin Johnston on Calvino and Duras, 1986
        • Tranter reviews Wright and Rodriguez, 1977
  • Poem: Butterfly
  • Prose: / Novel: Black Gold / Chapter 02
  • Prose: / Novel: Black Gold / Chapter 24
  • Residencies, Grants and Tours
    • 1982: The American Model: Contents, Index, Contributors
      • Acknowledgments
      • Andrew Taylor: Penelope or Circe?
      • Bruce Dawe: Public voices and private feeling
      • Chris Wallace-Crabbe: The Quaker Graveyard in Carlton
      • Faye Zwicky: The ethnic strain
      • Galway Kinnell: Walt Whitman’s poetic line
      • Joan Kirkby: Introduction
      • Joan Kirkby: Preface
      • John Tranter: Anaesthetics
      • Louis Simpson: William Carlos Williams
      • Robert Gray: Poetry and living
      • Thomas Shapcott: Beware of broken glass
      • Vincent Buckley: Ease of American Language
    • 1984 Tour
    • 1985 Macquarie University Residency
    • 1985 Tour
    • 1985: four poets tour the USA
    • 2012: The Longest Poem in the World
    • After Rilke
    • Baudelaire: Versions of Nine of his poems
    • Eighteen Fugitive Poems from Long Ago
    • Five Quartets
    • Letitia’s Lithe Limbs…
    • Paris Blues
    • Sonnets: Four Rhymed Sonnets, 2013
    • The Alphabet Murders: Seven Sections
    • The Beach: a superhypermetrical sestina
    • The Floor of Heaven: some newer notes
    • The Floor of Heaven: some older notes
  •  — 1980 Rae Desmond Jones’ review
  • 03 Bruce Beaver, 1928-2004
  • 04 Rae Desmond Jones
  • 05 Nigel Roberts
  • 06 Michael Dransfield, 1948-1973
  • 07 Vicki Viidikas, 1928-1998
  • 08 Tim Thorne
  • 09 Robert Adamson
  • 10 Martin Johnston
  • 11 Jennifer Maiden
  • 12 John Tranter
  • 13 Ken Taylor
  • 14 Charles Buckmaster
  • 15 Robert Kenny
  • 16 Kris Hemensley
  • 17 Clive Faust
  • 18 Walter Billeter
  • 19 Rudi Krausmann
  • 20 Philip Hammial
  • 21 Garrie Hutchinson
  • 22 John Jenkins
  • 23 John Forbes
  • 24 Laurie (Laurence) Duggan
  • 25 Alan Wearne
  • 26 John A. Scott
  • 27 Biographical and Bibliographical Details
  •  — 1980 Martin Harrison’s review
  • 1968 Free Grass magazine
  • 1968 Transit Number 1
  • 1969 Transit Number 2
  • 1981: Blackheath, Blue Mountains, N.S.W.
  • 1981: Katoomba, Blue Mountains, N.S.W.
  • 1984: Billy Marshall Stoneking, 1947-2016
  • 1995: Double Six: photographs and prose poems
  • 2009: A cloud above Umbria
  • 2009: Another cloud above Umbria
  • 2013: A dramatic cloud above Sydney
  • 2013: Adelaide photos
  • 2014: Puncher and Wattmann Xmas Party
  • 2014: Vagabond Press Xmas Party
  • 2015-10-06 Sappho Books Poetry Reading
  • 2015: Balmain, Sydney: 31 photos
  • 2015: Blackheath, Blue Mountains, N.S.W.
  • 2015: Heart Starter: poems and photos
  • 2015: Jenolan Caves, N.S.W.
  • 2015: Leura after snow
  • 2015: Out of Place launch, Knox Street Bar
  • 2015: Soirée at Bondi, November
  • 2016: Crepe Myrtle, Balmain, March
  • 2016: Poets in their Youth
  • 2008: Tranter’s Trace
  • 2012 Auckland 1 Wednesday night
  • 2012 Auckland 2: early Thursday
  • 2012 Auckland 3: mid-Thursday
  • Heart Starter, 2015: Notes to the poems
  • Mr Rubenking’s ‘Breakdown’
  • My baleful advice to a New Writer
  • Patricia Rolfe, 1920-2008: thanks!
  • Patrick White and Buttocks
  • Proust and Photography
  • Rimbaud the Murderer
  • 2012: Singapore: The Proust Questionnaire
  • A Sly Mongoose, by Ken Bolton, 2011
  • Chinese Whispers, by John Ashbery, 2002
  • Damaged Glamour, by John Forbes 1998
  • Home By Dark, by Pam Brown, 2013
  • Neighbors in a Thicket, by David Malouf, 1974
  • The Clean Dark, by Robert Adamson 1989
  • The Vernacular Republic, by Les Murray 1977
  • Black Gold, Chapter 02
  • Black Gold, Chapter 03
  • Black Gold, Chapter 04
  • Black Gold, Chapter 05
  • Black Gold, Chapter 06
  • Black Gold, Chapter 07
  • Black Gold, Chapter 09
  • Black Gold, Chapter 13
  • Black Gold, Chapter 14
  • Black Gold, Chapter 23
  • nil
  • Novel: Black Gold / Chapter 20
  • Novel: Black Gold / Chapter 21
  • TAM
  • Black Gold, Chapter 10
  • Black Gold, Chapter 11
  • Novel: Black Gold / Chapter 18
  • Novel: Black Gold / Chapter 19
  • Carousel
  • Samples pages from Different Hands
  • Valéry’s Room
  • Frank O’Hara: an amazing life
  • Frank O’Hara: and a sad death
  • Kenneth Koch talks to John Tranter in 1989
  • Koch and Ginsberg: Popeye fights William Blake, 1979
  • Three John Ashberys
  • TNAP-01 Contents: Links
  • TNAP-02: Introduction
  • John Tranter
  • FONTS
  • Samples pages from Different Hands
  • 04 Rae Desmond Jones
  • 05 Nigel Roberts
  • 06 Michael Dransfield, 1948-1973
  • 07 Vicki Viidikas, 1928-1998
  • 08 Tim Thorne
  • 09 Robert Adamson
  • 10 Martin Johnston
  • 11 Jennifer Maiden
  • 12 John Tranter
  • Neighbors in a Thicket, by David Malouf, 1974
  • The Vernacular Republic, by Les Murray 1977
  • The Clean Dark, by Robert Adamson 1989
  • Damaged Glamour, by John Forbes 1998
  • 2016: Poets in their Youth
  • A Sly Mongoose, by Ken Bolton, 2011
  • 2015: Heart Starter: poems and photos
  • 1968 Free Grass magazine
  • 1968 Transit Number 1
  • 1969 Transit Number 2
  •  — 1980 Rae Desmond Jones’ review
  •  — 1980 Martin Harrison’s review
  • 120 Jacket interviews with writers: free
  • At Nigel’s
  • Auden, Ashbery, Brodsky and The Nobel
  • Australia Day
  • Best Australian Poetry reviewed in Cordite
  • Between Two Deaths
  • Best Australian Poetry reviewed in Cordite
  • Bolton’s Literary Empire
  • Bruce Beaver
  • Bruce Beaver, 1928-2004
  • Carol Novack
  • Collected Poems, by Michael Dransfield, 1987
  • Dan Dactyl and the Mad Jungle Doctor
  • Difficult Rider
  • Distant Voices A: Thesis, 1 of 6 : Poems
  • Distant Voices B: Thesis, 2 of 6 : About the Poems
  • Distant Voices C: Thesis, 3 of 6 : Prior Projects
  • Distant Voices D: Thesis, 4 of 6 : Dream-Work
  • TAM
  • Poem: Butterfly
  • Prose: / Novel: Black Gold / Chapter 02
  • Novel: Black Gold / Chapter 16
  • Novel: Black Gold / Chapter 17
  • Novel: Black Gold / Chapter 18
  • Novel: Black Gold / Chapter 19
  • Novel: Black Gold / Chapter 20
  • Novel: Black Gold / Chapter 21
  • Prose: / Novel: Black Gold / Chapter 24
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