I’m a speedy reader, a rapid degutter of poems, yet it took me days to read John Tranter’s Selected Poems. This poetry is so packed with meaning, with metaphor, so inventive, intelligent, and funny it’s impossible to hurry. It left me, though I’d read most of it before, wishing for a Complete Poems to fill the gaps.
Selected Poems by John Tranter
Hale and Iremonger, 175 p., $19.95, $9.95 pb.,
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Hale and Iremonger, 112 p., $11.85 hb., $5.95 pb.
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Makar Press, 160 p., $15.95, $8.95 pb.
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