''Urban Myths:210 poems'' collects the best work to date from a poet considered one of the most original of his generation in Australia. A generous selection of new work is also included. Smart, wry and very stylish, John Tranter's poems investigate the vagaries of perception and the ability of language to converge life, imagination and art so that we arrive, unexpectedly, at the deepest human mysteries.
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Review:
Tranter has produced a body of work remarkable for its intellectual vitality, formal versatility, and powers of renewal over a long and formidable career. (Peter Pierce The Melbourne Age)|This new and selected poems reminds us, if we needed reminding, just how powerful John Tranter’s cumulated work is. There is a density, an intensity, and a many-sided explorativeness that probably cannot be matched in Australian poetry. (Martin Duwell Australian Book Review)
Review:
He is a canny operator, embracing modernism, and postmodernism, but somehow coming adroitly through to the other side... (Roger Caldwell PN Review 157)
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- PublisherReadHowYouWant
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1458744272
- ISBN 13 9781458744272
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages400
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