Guide to the Papers of John Tranter, 1964-1993

Summary

Collection number:

MS 5715

Creator:

John Tranter

Extent:

4.59 metres and (24 ms boxes + 2 archive boxes + 1 large folio box + 1 folder + 4 sound/av carriers + 1 digital carrier)

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of John Tranter, National Library of Australia, MS 5715, [series and/or file number]'.

Availability:

Available

Access conditions:

Restricted during the lifetime of John Tranter. Not for loan.

Background

Content Summary:

The collection comprises drafts, correspondence, and publishing material (such as galley proofs, typescripts, and publicity material) relating to research for and publication of a number of Tranter's works.

There are also drafts of various poems (1983-1993), including 'Ariadne on Lesbos', 'The Subtitles', 'Condensed Soup - Four Diversions and a Prose Poem on the Road to a Poetics',and 'Yoo-Hoo Fugaces'; a script of his play The Man on the Landing (1968); articles, interviews, and reviews; copies of various magazines that he has edited, including Poetry Australia, Free Grass and Transit; and papers relating to his role as poetry editor of TheBulletin.

Biographical Note:

John Tranter was born in Cooma, New South Wales, in 1943. He is married to the literary agent Lyn Tranter, and has two children. Tranter took his Bachelor of Arts in 1970, majoring in psychology and literature. His career has spanned printing, publishing, teaching and radio production. Tranter published Transit magazine in 1968-1969, worked in Singapore as the Asian editor for Angus Robertson in 1971-1973, produced ABC Radio's national arts program Helicon in 1987-1988, and was poetry editor for TheBulletin 1990-1993. He is the founding editor and publisher of Jacket, a quarterly Internet literary magazine.

Tranter has been awarded a number of fellowships from the Literature Board of the Australia Council, and has been a visiting scholar at various institutions, including the Faculty of Arts at the Australian National University, and Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. He won the Grace Leven Poetry Prize for Under Berlin in 1988, and the Melbourne Age Poetry Book of the Year award for At the Florida in 1993. A selection of Tranter's poems appears in the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry (1988).

Provenance:

Papers of John Tranter were first purchased by the Library in August 1977. Further instalments were purchased in December 1988 and February 1989, and donated under the Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme in May 1993, May 1994, and April 1995.

Arrangement:

Tranter kept his papers in good order, and this arrangement has been maintained by the Library. The following list of series and additions to the collection is based on lists received from Tranter.

Related

Separated Material:

A cassette tape of Tranter reading poems from Selected Poems and Under Berlin has been transferred to the Oral History collection.

Indexed terms

Names:

John Tranter

Conditions Governing Access:

Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1102656).

Conditions Governing Use:

Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.

Preferred citation:

Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of John Tranter, National Library of Australia, MS 5715, [series and/or file number]'.

Location of this collection:

National Library of Australia

Parkes Place

Canberra ACT 2600, Australia

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