Hi, all:

Announcing the Australian publication and the separate British/USA publication of 

     John Tranter: Urban Myths: 210 Poems: New and Selected

The British/USA edition was published in September 2006 by Salt Publishing in Cambridge UK. 

     http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/1844712524.htm

        EAN13:  9781844712526
        ISBN-10:  1844712524
        ISBN-13:  9781844712526
        436 pages, paperback

The Australian edition, which is virtually identical, was published in June 2006 by the University of Queensland Press. 

     http://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/book_details.php?id=0702235571

        322 pages. ISBN-0-7022-3557-1, paperback.

"Tranter has produced a body of work remarkable for its intellectual vitality, formal versatility, and powers of renewal over a long and formidable career." 
          -- Peter Pierce, The Melbourne Age, July 15, 2006. 
              Peter Pierce is professor of Australian literature 
              at James Cook University.

"This new and selected poems reminds us, if we needed reminding, just how powerful John Tranter's cumulated work is. There is a density, an intensity, and a many-sided explorativeness that probably cannot be matched in Australian poetry. Surprisingly, at 210 poems, it is a comparatively small book and has been pretty ruthlessly selected, but there is no doubting the size of its author's achievement." 
          -- Martin Duwell, Australian Book Review, August 2006, page 41

The Australian edition of Urban Myths has won the 2006 Victorian Premier's Prize (C.J.Dennis Prize) for poetry. From the judges' report: 

"The new and uncollected poems in John Tranter's Urban Myths make a significant addition to his oeuvre. Control and ease are evident in the writing, which displays personages, occasions and moods of the metropolitan modern world. Tranter's latest poems refresh through the exercise of urbane skills: this is a poet suave and playful, but never aloof; linguistically various, assured in style, and never less than fully attentive."

In a rash moment I have provided over a  hundred pages of notes to the poems on my Internet homepage at 

     http://johntranter.com/notes/um.shtml

The notes are published only on the Internet, and not in the book. They are provided for whatever interest they may have, and are not meant be necessary for an appreciation of the poems.

Please excuse redundant or superfluous postings of this muted trumpet voluntary. 

Best,
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