At the Florida

At the Florida is a collection of poems by Australian poet John Tranter, published by University of Queensland Press in 1993.

The collection contains 54 poems from a number of newspapers and literary publications, such as The Bulletin, both in Australia and overseas.

It was the winner of the 1993 The Age Book of the Year – Poetry Prize.

Contents

Critical reception

In The Sydney Morning Herald reviewer Heather Cam called the collection "a sophisticated cocktail" that "leaves a moody aftertaste and is apt to induce intellectual morning-after befuddlement."

In a survey of the finalists for the 1993 The Age Book of the Year – Poetry Prize in The Age newspaper, this collection was described as "Brooding, nostalgic, but at times disarmingly tender."

Notes

• Dedication: This book is dedicated to the memory of my mother Anne Katherine Tranter nee Brown 1906-1989

See also

• 1993 in Australian literature

References