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y separately published work icon The Alphabet Murders : Notes From a Work in Progress single work   poetry   "After all we have left behind"
  • Author:agent John Tranter http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/tranter-john
Issue Details: First known date: 1976... 1976 The Alphabet Murders : Notes From a Work in Progress
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Notes

  • This poem is in 27 numbered parts.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Alternative title: The Alphabet Murders
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Sydney, New South Wales,: Angus and Robertson ,       1976 .
      Extent: 27-48pp.p.
      ISBN: 0207132984
      Series: y separately published work icon Poets of the Month : Series 1 Rodney Hall (editor), Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1976 Z1172209 1976 series - publisher A collection of six individual selections originally published monthly during 1976. All of the individual booklets have their own ISBNs and all are paginated to accommodate the collective publication.
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Selected Poems John Tranter , Sydney : Hale and Iremonger , 1982 Z142945 1982 selected work poetry (taught in 1 units) Sydney : Hale and Iremonger , 1982 pg. 69-90
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Urban Myths : 210 Poems : New and Selected John Tranter , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2006 Z1268860 2006 selected work poetry (taught in 4 units)

    'Urban Myths: 210 Poems brings the best work to date from a poet considered one of the most original of his generation in Australia, together with a generous selection of new work. Smart, wry and very stylish, John Tranter’s poems investigate the vagaries of perception and the ability of language to converge life, imagination and art so that we arrive, unexpectedly, at the deepest human mysteries.' (Publication summary)

         St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2006
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The Lesson i "After all we have left behind", John Tranter , 1974 single work poetry
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From : The Alphabet Murders i "Karl Marx is a comic novelist, almost -", John Tranter , 1980 extract poetry (The Alphabet Murders : Notes From a Work in Progress)
— Appears in: The Golden Apples of the Sun : Twentieth Century Australian Poetry 1980; (p. 207-208)
From : The Alphabet Murders i "We could point to the poem and say `that map',", John Tranter , 1991 extract poetry (The Alphabet Murders : Notes From a Work in Progress)
— Appears in: The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry 1991; (p. 276)
From The Alphabet Murders : 23 i "We could point to the poem and say 'that map',", John Tranter , 2009 extract poetry (The Alphabet Murders : Notes From a Work in Progress)
— Appears in: The Puncher & Wattmann Anthology of Australian Poetry 2009; (p. 130-131)
#27 from The Alphabet Murders John Tranter , 2011 extract poetry (The Alphabet Murders : Notes From a Work in Progress)
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Structures Don't Go Out Onto the Streets? Notes on John Tranter's Radical Pastiche Louis Armand , 2023 single work essay
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 250 2023; (p. 3-8) 'My first real encounter with John Tranter's work. outside the miscellaneous poetry journals that somehow found their way into the local public library, came about unexpectedly enough through the efforts of John Millett, editor of the soon-to-be-defunct Pomp Australia. Millen, successor to Crate Perry. was liberal with the Poetry AuStrulia and South Head Press backlist and, along with books by Bruce Bearer, Noel Stock, Jennifer Maiden. Douglas Stewart and others. sent me a copy of Tranter's debut collection. Parallax (1970)...' (Introduction)
Dream-Work John Tranter , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 69 no. 3 2010; (p. 141-161)
What Is Beyond-Beyond-Beyond? : A Comment on Tranter's Ever-Growing Oeuvre Rashmi Bhatnagar , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Lemuria , Winter vol. 1 no. 1 2006; (p. 103-108) Bhatnagar traces a variety of interests and concerns voiced in the poetry of John Tranter, from his first poems to his more recent work, concluding that 'John Tranter is a poet of mammoth designs' (108).
Murdering Alphabets, Disorienting Romance Kate Fagan , Peter Minter , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Jacket , April no. 27 2005; Jacket2 2011; 'The following collaborative text was commissioned by Rod Mengham for his forthcoming book The John Tranter Reader (Salt Publishing, Cambridge). Its form responds to the structural provocation of The Alphabet Murders (1976)...An extract was co-presented at the 'Poetics of Australian Space' conference at the University of Sydney on 12 February 2005.' (Introductory note)
Becoming 'Absolutely Modern' : Adamson and Tranter's Abandonment Michael Brennan , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Departures : How Australia Reinvents Itself 2002; (p. 225-235, notes 299-300)
Exuberance and Recklings Christopher Pollnitz , 1976 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , December vol. 36 no. 4 1976; (p. 464-470)
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Poets of the Month Van Ikin , 1977 single work review
— Appears in: Quadrant , September vol. 21 no. 9 1977; (p. 78-79)
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— Appears in: The Age , 29 May 1976; (p. 21)
— Review of The Alphabet Murders : Notes From a Work in Progress John Tranter , 1976 single work poetry
Opening a Murder List Alan Gould , 1976 single work review
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— Review of Extracts from Ross' Poems Geoffrey Lehmann , 1976 selected work poetry ; Music Late at Night : Poems 1970-1973 James McAuley , 1976 selected work poetry ; The Alphabet Murders : Notes From a Work in Progress John Tranter , 1976 single work poetry
Murdering Alphabets, Disorienting Romance Kate Fagan , Peter Minter , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Jacket , April no. 27 2005; Jacket2 2011; 'The following collaborative text was commissioned by Rod Mengham for his forthcoming book The John Tranter Reader (Salt Publishing, Cambridge). Its form responds to the structural provocation of The Alphabet Murders (1976)...An extract was co-presented at the 'Poetics of Australian Space' conference at the University of Sydney on 12 February 2005.' (Introductory note)
What Is Beyond-Beyond-Beyond? : A Comment on Tranter's Ever-Growing Oeuvre Rashmi Bhatnagar , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Lemuria , Winter vol. 1 no. 1 2006; (p. 103-108) Bhatnagar traces a variety of interests and concerns voiced in the poetry of John Tranter, from his first poems to his more recent work, concluding that 'John Tranter is a poet of mammoth designs' (108).
Dream-Work John Tranter , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 69 no. 3 2010; (p. 141-161)
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