John Tranter’s 2012 Tapa Notebook Look among the links on this page for Navigation §
Simon Collings: The Scale of Artifice
suggests an affinity between her [Veronica Forrest-Thomson’s] ideas and those of later avant garde writers. §
Simon Collings on British poet Roy Fisher
Perloff’s championing of Fisher’s ‘experimental’ work is important §
Emily Bilman: Geoffrey Hill’s Poetry
the technical perfecting of a poem is an act of atonement §
Alan Botsford: on Joseph Brodsky
like the proverbial two ships — I but a rowboat, he a battleship — passing in the proverbial night. §
Vincent Katz: David Meltzer, 1937-2016
There are ups, there are downs. There is laughter! There’s weeping! §
Vincent Katz reviews Phaedra(s) at BAM
Isabelle… is captivating in whatever role she takes on §
Anthony Howell: a few words on Alain-Fournier
He is more interested in the intensity of his perception than in some impression of reality. §
Elisabeth Frost: on Rachel Blau DuPlessis
So this work is at once longstanding and a long time coming. §
Ward Ritchie: My Life in Printing (second quarter of UCLA interview) 170 pages
[in Paris] The 20s…was the period of the…inundation of young [US] writers §
Michael Witts: Two deaths; and two poems
Frank O’Hara and James Dean; Hockney and Cavafy §
Michael Rothenberg: Bozo the Slick
I will not follow / The plot of a narcissistic madman §
Arpine Konyalian Grenier: 2 poems
give me the story you say / there is no story §
A surd ditty was the common coin in our encoyded X-changes §
Norman MacAfee: Afghanistan and the Effects of War on Men
my sister / born 1939 / the year / war begins. §
Ken Bolton: A Poem for Philip Whalen
It’s the light I like, / & it’s late. §
Auckland 2012 Symposium, part one
does a work just hit a certain number of pages? §
Auckland 2012 Symposium, part two
Or does it have to engage… time as well as space? §
Auckland 2012 Symposium, part three
All poems take time to write §
Roland Wakelin and Lloyd Rees taught John Tranter art and composition in 1961. §