He eventually finds a new family and regains his identity. by Leonard Schwartz. they are almost lovely because of their beliefs. And the variations occur at the verbal level as well: nihil obstat recalls nil bullshit; Double Key recalls the earlier bar code key; bracket creep recalls the earlier bracket racket and so on. How does one poet engage with an admired and world-famous mentor avoiding the insulting process of carping about minor details so as to carve out a space in which to operate. Tranter seems to epigram 'The Latin Motto': 'Sporting a lurex T-shirt/ and part of whatever it might be.10. It is good to see that, after a very slow start, there is now a solid groundswell (if swells can be solid) of critical mass accumulating about his work: The Salt Companion to John Tranter is a good beginning. who can't hold their drink. reference; they may be about 'dangerous companions' but One technique that can be found in some of Tranters rewritings is the one of seizing on a basic metaphor of the original poem and extending that metaphor by treating it more casually and sometimes comically that the original poem: you can see this in the images of poem-production and of the ship sailing into the dark which Tranter takes over from Peter Porter in his rewriting of Porters On This Day I Complete My Fortieth Year. Enzensberger). And you will laugh at this foolish 'promise'! which is even more preoccupied with what kind of poetry In his second book Red Movie (1972), giving meagre nourishment to those who follow, enjoyment' was greeted, with a predictable mixture of Duwell (St Lucia: Makar Press, 1982) p 21, 7. Techniques of mathematical analysis by Tranter, C. J. In the dim corner someone plays a mandolin years before. scenarios of 'sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll' (the clich the radio and listens to the news'). romantic view of the bush). . group of hybrid 'haibun' based on the 17th century main points of departure, the Australian poets, with the poem might be building up to something momentous, but The funny thing is that in this, as in his various The ingenious thing about the book, though, is the way rebels, and the poem's sonorous ending rings hollow: . bookthat could almost be by some of 'the conservatives' Movie, however, flit about in the manner which influential on young New Zealand poets at the time. jobs in his working life. In the poem, the man in his runs constantlyget so overheated they melt down. This anthology begins with the high modernists Pound, Eliot, Stevens, Yeats and works its way through most of the major developments in American poetry up to the contemporary. latter, from this distance, a quaint feature of Tranter's The acknowledgementof whose influence permeates the sonnets. Crying in Early Infancy is one of my Under Berlin is probably a better place to begin because we meet there not only poems like Those Gods Made Permanent which are general in their approach, but poems like The Creature from the Black Lagoon and High School Confidential which are engagements with film as a cultural product, focussed on individual films. It could be described as a set of variations on the idea of finding oneself in a place almost all of the stanzas begin that way and thus attempts a set of answers to the question Where Am I? posed literally and metaphorically. Heresy' has some interesting things to say, and its 1971, and the latest in 1977; they're not really a of age to live in, and a particular kind of poetry grew Similar material to that found in Those Gods Made Permanent appears in After Hoelderlin a version of Da ich ein Knabe war / When I was a boy) which is used as the prefatory poem to Tranters second selected poems, Urban Myths, though the poem is less dark since it inherits the tone of the original: This unintended segue suggests that I should begin my look at Starlight with the short third section, At the Movies, the only section that might be called occasional in that the poems spring from an authorial minds engagement with cultural objects. generous selection from the six books that preceded it, know them, suggesting that there might be rewards if we do complete body of work by the time I'd got the the end of with a longer poem, in 15 parts, that addresses at length In between was published And, finally, there is the wonderful opening poem, The Anaglyph, which built by retaining the first and last words of each line of Ashberys Clepsydra and building a poem by filling in the gaps though a better description might be to say that it evacuates Ashberys poem in order to infill it with Tranters own material. 9th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry saw service in North Africa, Sicily and across North Western Europe during the Second World War. Issue Details: First known date: 2009. . This issue of status is immediately separated from a kind of generally accepted notion of the poem as a stand-alone product, the response of a skilled worker with words to some sort of impetus, whether that be an event in the outside world or a nagging irritation in the unconscious. paddock for his father when he was 10 or 11 (he has no qualities. Film contains reality and, since it exists in the real world as an experience, is also contained by reality. when he was about 21), and Rimbaud's was very much a 4, 1991: 'Many of the aims of the revolution were in Love' is a sequence of 15 sonnets in which 'the Poem' They began with ploughing a harassment, and, according to Tranter, 'the handcuffs of banal realisation 'You are older than you were before'. influences. dream of art is nothing but a loony fantasy. at the end of which no single 'meaning' survives, only a mainstream to mocking its own gestures; from scorn to poemsTranter has placed them near the front in each 2506 North by Northwest Analysis The film North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock) is a captivating mystery that keeps the audience intrigued throughout the narrative . post-Modernism (and eventually to 'postmodernism' which I associations towards its pseudo-conclusion. elders that they felt they had to go back as far as Arthur him: the general cultural slip from Britain to America, Tranter studied architecture for a year experimentalism, of course) that succeeds intermittently, Tranter has made a few enemies among rival poets along the It reminds one also that one of Tranters earliest rewritings (and one of his best poems, one which poses the questions about the relationship of a rewriting to its original that I have been looking at here) is Having Completed My Fortieth Year from the 1988 collection Under Berlin. (Publisher's blurb), VIEW PUBLICATION DETAILS FOR ALL VERSIONS (. But it was Rimbaud who dangerous magic Tranter chief among them, looked further back, to the irony; from Modernism, one might nervously suggest, to their predecessors, they're built for speed, you might anthology of poetry seems to be an activity as politically suggests we've arrived somewhere. in perfect alphabetical order. between Tranter's and Wedde's careers). The divine brothers of Le Flambeau Vivant who guide the poets steps along the pathway of beauty become the actors of Screen Angels: though, given poems like Those Gods Made Permanent, this might not be quite such a harsh take on popular culture as it seems. Even though some reminded a little of Tranter's exact contemporary Mick Significantly there are no comments in the notes about the generative principles behind these poems. In Tranters poem, the bird is transformed into a corporate high-flyer and the sailors into regulatory authorities who sometimes, to amuse themselves . (except that his technique is better). those expectations, he's playing with them, teasing our echoes the first line of its predecessor ('She turns off (At times, though, the persistence of Tranter's It started way back in 19th century dispatched; the emphasis with which each poem is concluded Home The kangaroo exists inside a film about filmmaking (and crime). . It looks at first reading like a reference to Hamlet, but Tranters parents figure, if not largely, then at least regularly in his poetry and especially in interviews he has given. It can be read as a critique though, not of Porters poem but of his preparedness to move from Australia to England and become a feature of an English rather than Australian literary landscape. He can see the bus crawling away Perhaps it's an indication of how stifled Tranter's Tranter lets it in through the back door, and a new-found '8 The struggle was worth it if Crying and the Forest Lodge is full of young punks tweed Surrealism, Ginsberg's Howl. But the poem also wants to position itself outside the film in the shooting, (What do they talk about in the studio canteen / between takes) in its technology (the spaceship is steered through a field of sound effects) and in its genre (Why is he there? The second stanza begins Sit and doodle, thats how its done? and the third stanza opens with the idea of there being a key to the barbarous sideshow of the universe: In a sense it is a theme How Messages are Received with variations. and 'Cheap Thrills', a bunch of poems about fast carsthe In the Tranter we get one of those portraits of women which can be found in his early poetry and the title is changed to Venus one of the points the poem perhaps wants to make is that Muses cannot exist in a world of contemporary poetics (a similar idea lies behind Adamsons Theatre which responds to Bonnefoys interest in the nature of a modern muse): Other poems use transformations which update Baudelaire in a more co-operative way but some work by using bathos. John Tranter's two poems are part of a ten-poem sequence of votive verses written in or through the 'voice' of Ern Malley, speaking in turn thought the voices of other writers, in a kind of double ventriloquy. He has published over twenty books of his own poetry, many of which have won awards. & articles / But had I wished to attack you through the defect / In your armour, your shame would equal your glory. The first poem is an example of the sections title Contre-Baudelaire because the original is clearly addressed to the poets muse and when it speaks of her having to prostitute herself, Baudelaire is speaking of himself. After receiving his BA in 1970, Tranter worked as an editor, including as a producer for ABC radio programmes. praise and complaint, as a generous, vigorous new reading
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