John Tranter is a leading contemporary English-language poet. He has published over twenty collections of verse and several anthologies and has given more than one hundred readings and talks around the world. He has visited New York City over twenty times, and has lived in London, Melbourne, Singapore, and elsewhere, and is now based in Sydney. He is the founding editor of the free Internet magazine Jacket (now Jacket2 at UPenn), and the founder of the Australian Poetry Library project, which publishes over 40,000 poems on the Internet, as well as the Journal of Poetics Research.
