Homepage
Parallax
Free Grass
Reviews
Documents
John Tranter, Bredbo, New South Wales, Australia, c. 1947
This is the homepage for that section of the Setis site dealing with John Tranter’s early writing, 1960-1970, hosted by the University of Sydney Library, Sydney, Australia. It is copyright. Two other sites offer over a thousand pages of more recent material: the John Tranter page on APRIL (the Australian Poetry Resources Internet Library), and John’s homepage at johntranter.com. On this site:
Parallax and other poems: John Tranter’s first book of poems, published in 1970, when he was 27. This edition consists of HTML text of each page, and linked photographic images of the pages of the original printed book and images of the front and back cover, and RealAudio recordings of the author reading sixteen of the poems.
The book is also available here for viewing or downloading in the form of an Adobe Acrobat Portable Document File. To read the file you will need the free Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, which you may download from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html
Free Grass: an electronic edition of the only extant number of Free Grass magazine, made up of HTML text and linked photographic images of the original printed pages. Free Grass, a five page mimeographed magazine, splashed into the pond of little ‘underground’ magazines in Australia in 1968. The editorial standards were loose, and there was a strong counter-cultural flavour to the thing. Strangest of all, it lived up to its title: it was literally free. But Free Grass had a secret…
Eighteen Reviews from the 1970s of Parallax and Crying in Early Infancy: 100 Sonnets (1977).
Documents: a page of links to the contents page of Transit New Poetry numbers One and Two, the contents page of the 1970 poetry anthology Preface to the Seventies, and a column hostile to the new poetry by Cyril Pearl with replies from Rudi Krausmann and John Tranter; also John’s 1966 passport and some pages of Lyn Tranter’s 1966 passport.
SETIS — The image of the shield at left is the crest of the University of Sydney, which, through the University of Sydney Library, owns and operates this site though its Setis program. Setis stands for the "Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service". The Library’s mail address is The University of Sydney Library, NSW 2006 Australia.
This section of the University of Sydney Library site that presents material relating to John Tranter’s writing career is open to the public without charge or restriction, except for the usual copyright restrictions (see below). The first stage of the site was begun in early 2000, and was more or less complete by the end of that year. The initial work was funded mainly by a grant from the University of Sydney and the Australian Research Council. Much of the more recent material originally shown on this site has been moved to the John Tranter page on APRIL (the Australian Poetry Resources Internet Library), and John’s homepage at johntranter.com. Both these sites are free to view.
Request for feedback: We’d be grateful if our readers would let us know about any errors or broken links. The Setis Coordinator is Creagh Cole, who can be contacted via email at c.cole@library.usyd.edu.au
Copyright and Imprint Notice: Please respect the fact that all the material relating to John Tranter on this site is copyright © John Tranter, 2007, and by the various other authors whose work appears here. It is made available for personal study and enjoyment by individuals only. It may not be stored, displayed, published, reproduced, or used for any other purpose.
http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/tranter/index.html