John Ernest Tranter (born 1943) is an Australian poet, publisher and editor. He has a long list of achievements in writing, publishing and broadcasting. His achievements include publishing more than twenty books of poetry; devising, with Jan Garrett, the long running ABC radio program Books and Writing; and founding in 1997 the internet quarterly literary magazine Jacket which he published and edited until 2010, when he gave it to the University of Pennsylvania.[1]
Tranter's significance to Australian poetry has been recognised by the Australia Council, which awarded him a Creative Arts Fellowship in 1990, and by fellow poets "who acknowledge his role as innovator and experimentalist".[2]