''Jacket'' was an online literary periodical founded by the Australian poet
John Tranter
John Ernest Tranter (29 April 1943 – 21 April 2023) was an Australian poet, publisher and editor. He published more than twenty books of poetry; devising, with Jan Garrett, the long running ABC radio program ''Books and Writing''; and foundin ...
, published from 1997-2010. The first issue was in October 1997.
Until 2010, each new number of the magazine was posted at the website piece by piece until the new issue was full, when the next issue started. Past issues remain posted as well. Most of the material was original to the magazine, "but some is excerpted from or co-produced with hard-to-get books and magazines, partly to help them find new readers", according to the ''Jacket'' website.
Peter Forbes called ''Jacket'' the "prince of online poetry magazines".
[Peter Forbes (6 June 2002]
Working the web: Poetry
in ''The Guardian
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''. Retrieved 13 December 2006. After the 40th volume, Tranter gave the magazine to the
University of Pennsylvania
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in 2010, where it was published with an augmented staff and resources at the
Kelly Writers House as ''
Jacket2''.
Awards
* Best of the Net award from the (Poetry) Mining Company in New York in December 1997.
* Site of the Month at the Electronic Poetry Center site in Buffalo, New York, in November 1997 and December 1999
* Recommended Site in the Web Del Sol Literary Ring site for Poetry in December 1997
*Featured Site on the Booksmith Bookstore's "Literary Links" site in San Francisco, April 1998,
* "Page One Award" site on the Fiction Webring in 1999
* Encyclopædia Britannica Internet Guide Award site, January 2000
See also
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List of literary magazines
Below is a list of literary magazines and journals: periodicals devoted to book reviews, creative nonfiction, essays, poems, short fiction, and similar literary endeavors.
*Because the majority are from the United States, the country of origin ...
References
External links
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Australian poetry
Defunct literary magazines published in Australia
Magazines established in 1997
Magazines disestablished in 2010
Online literary magazines
Online magazines with defunct print editions
Poetry magazines published in Australia
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