[Miriam Cosic, The Australian, February 6th 2010]:
Tranter grew up in Sydney, daughter of poet John Tranter and literary agent Lyn Tranter. The bookish environment seemed normal, she says, and literature just the business of grown-ups. From her childish perspective, what those bohemian adults really did was hang out, drink, argue and generally misbehave. Of her father’s legendary falling out with Les Murray over the purposes of poetry, she says airily: “I can’t really remember it. I was pretty caught up in my own world. Dad was always having that argument with someone, and he was having it with Les at that time … ”
She trails off. “But I always saw the value in Dad’s point of view. He’s an anti-romantic.” She pauses again, reluctant to speak for him. She says she took some of his views very seriously – especially the importance of craft and of literary tradition – but adds that, after all, “he’s my Dad, so I would have wanted to do things my own way …