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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