Recently Viewed

New

Insomnia by John Kinsella

No reviews yet Write a Review
RRP: $16.76
Booksplease Price: $14.85
Booksplease saves you 11%

  Delivery: We ship to over 200 countries from the UK
  Range: Millions of books available
  Reviews: Booksplease rated "Excellent" on Trustpilot

  FREE UK DELIVERY: When you buy 3 or more books on Booksplease - Use code: FREEUKDELIVERY in your cart!

SKU:
9781529009767
MPN:
9781529009767
Available from Booksplease!
Global delivery available
Global delivery available
Global delivery available
Global delivery available
Global delivery available
Availability: Usually dispatched within 4 working days

Frequently Bought Together:

Total: Inc. VAT
Total: Ex. VAT

Description

The Australian poet John Kinsella's vivid and urgent new collection addresses the crisis of being that currently afflicts us: Kinsella addresses a situation where the creations of the human imagination, the very means by which we extend our empathies into the world - art, music and philosophy - suddenly find themselves in a world that not only denies their importance, but can sometimes seem to have no use for them at all. In an attempt to find a still point from which we might reconfigure our perspective and address the paradoxes of our contemporary experience, Kinsella has written poems of self-accusation and angry protest, meditations on the nature of loss and trauma, and full-throated celebrations of the natural world. Ranging from Jam Tree Gully, Western Australia to the coast of West Cork, Ireland, haunted by historical and literary figures from Dante to Emily Bronte (whom Kinsella has obsessed over since he was a child, and who intervenes in the poet's attempts to come to grips with ideas of colonization and identity), Insomnia may be Kinsella's most various and powerful collection to date.

About the Author
John Kinsella is the author of over thirty books. He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University. In 2007 he received the Fellowship of Australian Writers Christopher Brennan Award for lifetime achievement in poetry.


Book Information
ISBN 9781529009767
Author John Kinsella
Format Paperback
Page Count 80
Imprint Picador
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Weight(grams) 220g
Dimensions(mm) 196mm * 153mm * 14mm

Reviews

No reviews yet Write a Review

Booksplease  Reviews