John Tranter is an internationally renowned poet. His many volumes of poetry include Under Berlin (UQP 1988), which won the Grace Leven Prize, and At the Florida (UQP 1993). He edited the controversial anthology The New Australian Poetry, and co-edited The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry with Philip Mead in 1993, now the standard text in its field. He is the author of twenty books and the founding editor of the free internet magazine Jacket.
