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Urban Myths: 210 Poems
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Ideal for readers interested in contemporary poetry, language innovation, and deep explorations of human experience through arts and culture.
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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Urban Myths: 210 Poems brings the best work to date from a poet considered one of the most original of his generation in Australia, together with a generous selection of new work.
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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ISBN: 9780702235573
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 May 2006
Country: Australia
Imprint: University of Queensland Press
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 21.0mm
Width: 131.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 384g
Pages: 356
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About the Author
John Tranter was born in Cooma in 1943. He attended country schools and took his Bachelor of Arts in 1970 after attending university sporadically. He has published eight volumes of poetry and edited the controversial anthology The New Australian Poetry which featured some of the more experimental work of his own generation. During 1987 and 1988 he was in charge of the ABC Radio National arts program Radio Helicon. He lived for some years in Singapore and London and now lives in Sydney.
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