1/7/2023 0 Comments Michael tranter![]() ![]() That sentiment notwithstanding – for there's plenty of yesterday's existence in the book – the idea that you can make/find your own philosophy and religion surfaces again and again: 'A beat up car, // teaching him philosophy! … And religion is like the traffic, he reasoned … God speaks like a Mack truck' ('Vista') 'I grabbed the bottle … brilliant thoughts imprisoned in green glass' ('Whitecaps') 'ploughman as artist' ('My Story'). ![]() Today is all that exists, and be grateful for it. Tranter's long bio mentions various magazine publications, none of them Australian the excellent online journal Jacket, which Tranter edits, also goes unmentioned. Ultra's unattributed blurb (which starts with an elision) is presumably by God the publisher. How Ashberian is Tranter? Their mode is similar, the way they range over a topic before resting on a twig or in mid-air, yet Tranter is closer to the ground, less insouciant, more urgent, the phrasing of a private eye who's always on the case, commissioned or not. At a Carlton party, someone said to me that a number of Australian poets were all right until they started imitating Ashbery: Tranter was the example given.
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