Tuesday, August 30, 2011

News at Eleven: "I've been taking other artworks

and demolishing them and rebuilding them and commenting on them and using bits of them to critique them."

It's an approach that is to the fore in his [John Tranter's] most recent collection, Starlight: 150 Poems, which on Thursday won the Age Poetry Book of the Year award. It is a book of "mistranslations", reworkings and great wit.

Starlight opens with The Anaglyph, a radical reworking of Clepsydra by American poet John Ashbery, to whom the book is dedicated.

from The Age: Poetic dreamer

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