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John Millett (born 3 February 1921) is an Australian poet, reviewer and poetry editor. He was editor of ''Poetry Australia'' magazine from 1987 until its demise in 1992. ==Early years== Millett was born in Niangala, New South Wales. His grandmother introduced him to adventure classics such as ''Robinson Crusoe'', ''Ivanhoe'', ''The Last of the Mohicans'' and the poems of Walter Scott. Millett served in England during World War II as a wireless air gunner with the all-Australian RAAF No 10 Squadron, from which experience he wrote the popular ''Tail Arse Charlie'', also adapted for ABC Radio. After the war he worked in the Repatriation Department. He then went to study law at Sydney University graduating with LLB.〔(Academy Library Collection )〕 His book Blue Dynamite was Dramatized By Bradley R. Strahan (Editor of Visions International, where he had been regularly published) with the assistance of the Source theater group in Washington, DC where it was performed at several venues in 1988, including the Australian Embassy. From 1962 he has been involved with Poetry Australia, advising on legal and accountancy matters then becoming editor from 1987. The magazine was conceptualised by Grace Perry to be international while maintaining an Australian presence. International contributors included Ezra Pound, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, Richard Murphy, Robert Peters and Margaret Atwood. Translations included early Russian poets by Rosemary Dobson and David Campbell, Laurence Springarn's translations from Portuguese and Mark Scrivener's translations of German classics. Poetry Australia also published special issues of New Zealand, Canadian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch and Flemish, American, Gaelic, French, Austrian, Swedish and Papua New Guinean poetry.〔(Poetry Australia )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Millett (poet)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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