John Antill Millett OAM (3 February 1921[1] – 19 May 2019) was an Australian poet, reviewer and poetry editor.
[2][3] 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,[3] from which experience he wrote the popular Tail Arse Charlie, also adapted for ABC Radio.
[4] His book Blue Dynamite was dramatised by Bradley R. Strahan (editor of Visions International, where he had been regularly published) with the assistance of the Source theater group in Washington, D.C. where it was performed at several venues in 1988, including the Australian Embassy.
International contributors included Ezra Pound, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, Richard Murphy, Robert Peters and Margaret Atwood.