“john kinsella”

A three-part, epic work challenging our notions about the environment by Australia's preeminent poet of the natural world. Consisting of "Purgatorio: Up Close, Paradiso: Rupture," and "Inferno: Leisure Centre," John Kinsella's "distractions" on Dante's "Divine Comedy" journey through time and space.... More

ONE OF AUSTRALIA'S BEST POETS, drawn to the natural world, vividly depicts the western Australian wheat-belt landscape in this brilliant epic poem. Analogies are made between the pastoral idyll and the radical and antipastoral necessitated by today's rural world salinity, pesticides, road kill, soil... More

John Kinsella explores a contemporary poetics and pedagogy as it emerges from his reflections on his own writing and teaching, and on the work of other poets, particularly contemporary writers with which he feels some affinity. ... More

This new selection of John Kinsella's innovative poetry gathers work from over fifteen years. Including seminal works like Syzygy and Erratum/Frame(d) as well as more fugitive publications like The Radnoti Poems and The Benefaction, this is a key title for anyone wanting to understand the breadth of... More

The history of the Irish is full of exhilarating stories, noble achievements, cliffhanging dramas, profound tragedies, and indefatigable perseverance--a history Clan Kinsella helped create.The history of the Irish is full of exhilarating stories, noble achievements, cliff-hanging dramas, profound tr... More