Boarding School single work   poetry   "Bright gods, trust me to play"
Is part of Sex Chemistry : A Sequence John Tranter , 1986 sequence poetry
  • Author:agent John Tranter http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/tranter-john
Issue Details: First known date: 1986... 1986 Boarding School
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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Scripsi vol. 4 no. 1 July 1986 Z603317 1986 periodical issue 1986 pg. 125
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Under Berlin : New Poems 1988 John Tranter , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1988 Z437923 1988 selected work poetry St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1988 pg. 67
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Outrider : A Journal of Multicultural Literature in Australia vol. 6 no. 1 June 1989 Z611502 1989 periodical issue 1989 pg. 25
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Urban Myths : 210 Poems : New and Selected John Tranter , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2006 Z1268860 2006 selected work poetry (taught in 4 units)

    'Urban Myths: 210 Poems brings the best work to date from a poet considered one of the most original of his generation in Australia, together with a generous selection of new work. Smart, wry and very stylish, John Tranter’s poems investigate the vagaries of perception and the ability of language to converge life, imagination and art so that we arrive, unexpectedly, at the deepest human mysteries.' (Publication summary)

    St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2006
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Language in My Tongue : An Anthology of Australian and New Zealand Poetry Cassandra Atherton (editor), Paul Hetherington (editor), Australia : FarFlung Editions , 2022 24888961 2022 anthology poetry

    'This new anthology of Australian and New Zealand poetry is remarkable for its exuberance, its vitality, and the notably youthful vibrancy of its free verse as well as its innovative prose poetry.  Including a wide range of voices from such well-known poets as John Kinsella, Pam Brown, and John Tranter to relative new-comers like Chris Tse and essa may ranapiri, The Language in my Tongue is full of surprises and special pleasures.

    —Marjorie Perloff, Professor Emerita of English
     at Stanford University and Florence R. Scott Professor
     of English Emerita at the University of Southern California

    'Here are vernaculars. Here are modern-day classics. Here is a “mind in an unclear world,” “a space perfection will never survive.”  Here is invention permitted to travel the world, in dense prose poems and in chatty ones, in capable free verse and ghazals, “emissaries” and “a russet lock in an envelope.” Here Echnida meets the Spider, “making things transparent,” and here [is] bodily frailty and erotic love. Here, readers, are some highlights of the Antipodes, two—no, far more than two—poetic traditions, made available for you. Investigate. Drink deep.

    —Stephanie Burt, Professor of English at Harvard University'  (Publication summary)

    Australia : FarFlung Editions , 2022
    pg. 185

Works about this Work

Hacking at the Pattern: Post-Romantic Consciousness in the Poetry of John Tranter Alan Urquhart , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , September vol. 53 no. 3 1993; (p. 12-29)
Hacking at the Pattern: Post-Romantic Consciousness in the Poetry of John Tranter Alan Urquhart , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , September vol. 53 no. 3 1993; (p. 12-29)
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