Description
Known for a poetry both experimental, "activist" and lyrical that reinvents the pastoral, John Kinsella considers his and his family's life at Jam Tree Gully, in the Western Australian wheatbelt and his deeply felt ecological concerns in this new cycle of poems about place, landscape, home and absence. Part One, "Internal Exile", explores issues of departure and return as well as alienation in Jam Tree Gully. Part Two, "Inside Out", reevaluates how Kinsella and his family deal with ideas of "space" and proximity while also looking out into the wider world. How do we read an ecology as refuge? What lines of communication with the outside world need to be kept open? As Paul Kane observed in World Literature Today, "In Kinsella's poetry . . . are lands marked by isolation and mundane violence and by a terrible transcendent beauty".
About the Author
John Kinsella is the author of over thirty books, including the critically acclaimed Jam Tree Gully and Firebreaks. He is a Fellow of Churchill College, University of Cambridge, and professor of literature and environment at Curtin University. In 2007 he received the Fellowship of Australian Writers Christopher Brennan Award for lifetime achievement in poetry. He lives at Jam Tree Gully in the Western Australian Wheatbelt.
Reviews
"'Come here, join the protest' he invites. No poet currently working is more loyal to locale, his Jam Tree Gully, and yet none speaks as accurately from so many different geographies. 'Air shimmering with riot' ends a later poem, and between protest and riot Kinsella maps the living world onto a Mobius strip of poetry on which all things are contiguous and contingent. Nothing escapes his loving, ethical watching." -- Bin Ramke, author of Missing the Moon "Rooted in the homeopathy of 'fighting fire with fire,' John Kinsella's new book of poems is a how-to manual of care and caring: the care of his craft as a poet, the care for other persons near and far in time and space, and, above all, this true firebrand's care for the natural world-which reaches from his tender shepherding of the mice invading his cupboards to his concern for species yet unknown." -- Susan Stewart, author of The Poet's Freedom
Book Information
ISBN 9780393352610
Author John Kinsella
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint WW Norton & Co
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Weight(grams) 332g
Dimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm * 20mm
About the Author
John Kinsella is the author of over thirty books, including the critically acclaimed Jam Tree Gully and Firebreaks. He is a Fellow of Churchill College, University of Cambridge, and professor of literature and environment at Curtin University. In 2007 he received the Fellowship of Australian Writers Christopher Brennan Award for lifetime achievement in poetry. He lives at Jam Tree Gully in the Western Australian Wheatbelt.
Reviews
"'Come here, join the protest' he invites. No poet currently working is more loyal to locale, his Jam Tree Gully, and yet none speaks as accurately from so many different geographies. 'Air shimmering with riot' ends a later poem, and between protest and riot Kinsella maps the living world onto a Mobius strip of poetry on which all things are contiguous and contingent. Nothing escapes his loving, ethical watching." -- Bin Ramke, author of Missing the Moon "Rooted in the homeopathy of 'fighting fire with fire,' John Kinsella's new book of poems is a how-to manual of care and caring: the care of his craft as a poet, the care for other persons near and far in time and space, and, above all, this true firebrand's care for the natural world-which reaches from his tender shepherding of the mice invading his cupboards to his concern for species yet unknown." -- Susan Stewart, author of The Poet's Freedom
Book Information
ISBN 9780393352610
Author John Kinsella
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint WW Norton & Co
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Weight(grams) 332g
Dimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm * 20mm
