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‘Pitch perfect. Subtly powerful stories that ring hauntingly true.’ - Steven Carroll, Winner of the Miles Franklin Award In this luminous book of ...
A follow-up to the critically acclaimed Jam Tree Gully, Firebreaks records life and ecology in Western Australia. Known for a poetry both experimental...
Anarchy in the Avon Valley
John Kinsella is known internationally as the acclaimed author of more than thirty books of poetry and prose, but in tandem with—and often through�...
Once a fêted literary figure, the former lover of B-list movie star Lucida, but now derelict, incontinent, asexual, ageing poet Harold Lime turns his...
Inspired by the natural world, Kinsella's poems consider the protection and valuing of human and animal life, and the environment itself. Reflecting t...
A Memoir of Intoxications
Gives a racy, anecdotal account of John Kinsella's meetings with the great and shambolic men and women of poetry. Since his late teens, Kinsella has b...
From well-known poets Charmaine Papertalk Green and John Kinsella comes a tete-a-tete that is powerful, thought provoking, challenging and unapologeti...
A vivid and urgent collection that addresses the contemporary crises—environmental, philosophical, and artistic—that keep us up at night. In this ...
One of Australia's best poets conjures the Australian countryside in this brilliant epic, inspired by Philip Sidney's classic pastoral "Arcadia." “A...
Stories
Shifts in tone, setting and narration create a sense of the uncanny in Beam of Light, Kinsella’s haunting collection of stories. A man is disturbed ...
A verse novel
A unique experience. A novel in ‘spindle’ sonnets. A drama. An impassioned cry for a beautiful and stolen world under threat. A ‘protester’ wh...
"We are poised before...what I prophesy will be a major art."—Harold Bloom "One of Australia's most vivid, energetic and stormy poets, a writer who ...
A rural life
John Kinsella'smemoir of his rural life takes us deep into the heart of what it means tobelong and unbelong. The joys and travails of childhood, adult...
John Kinsella portrays the lives and landscapes of modern rural Australia in emotionally charged poems which reinvent the possibilities of language. H...
On the Imperatives of Place
Temporariness is a scandal in our culture of monumentalism and its persistent search for permanence. Temporariness, the time of the ephemeral and the ...
Beyond landscape and lyricism
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 othe...
Essays, Reviews, Commentaries, and Chorography.
These volumes present John Kinsella’s uncollected critical writings and personal reflections from the early 1990s to the present. Included are exten...
A poetics of displacement
This book is concerned with the complexities of defining 'place', of observing and 'seeing' place, and how we might write a poetics of place. From Kat...
Fascinated by caves and digging holes since childhood, Manfred discovers a path through to another realm via a Neolithic copper mine at Mount Gabri...
An Ecological Poetics
Poets Forrest Gander and John Kinsella offer an experiment, a collaborative volume of prose and poetry that investigates--both thematically and formal...
An Antifascist Poetics
This Pivot book provides a wide-ranging and diverse commentary on issues of legibility (and illegibility) around poetry, antifascist pacifist activism...
Beyond Landscape and Lyricism
John Kinsella has seen them. Bright cigar-shaped objects. As a child they seemed no stranger than much else. Like those lights glowing in the Australi...
The Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry is a comprehensive survey of the state's poets from the 19th century to today. Featuring wo...
Or Glow (a Poem)
John Kinsella's poem 'America' is very much in the mould of Balke's visionary poem 'America, A Prophecy' but unlike Blake, Kinsella does not express h...
Tracing literary sites of activism
This volume completes John Kinsella’s trilogy of critical activist poetics, begun two decades ago. It challenges familiar topoi and normatives of po...
Autois an extraordinary work of autobiography from one of Australia's best-known poets. In the context of autobiographical writing in Australia, Auto ...
Lectures on Landscape and Language
John Kinsella's essays are concerned with culture, place, and poetic language. From the 'city' to the 'bush', and with 'prospect' and 'refuge' of land...
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A Retrospective
Always controversial, poet Michael Dransfield's life story has tended to obscure his talent and achievement. Tales of drugs, sexual ambiguity and myth...
Nuclear Theory Degree Zero: Essays Against the Nuclear Android investigates the threat conveyed and maintained by the nuclear cycle: mining, research,...
Sausage Making, Curing, Terrines, and Pâtes
The complete, contemporary guide to preparing sausages, cured andsmoked meats, pâtés and terrines, and cured and smokedfish of the highest quality C...
The Australian poet John Kinsella’s vivid and urgent new collection addresses the crisis of being that currently afflicts us: Kinsella addresses a s...
John Kinsella is known internationally as the acclaimed author of more than thirty books of poetry and prose, but in tandem with - and often directly ...
With Armour, the great Australian poet John Kinsella has written his most spiritual work to date – and his most politically engaged. The world in wh...
Aporia is a collection searching for logic where logic is hard to find or maybe can't be found. From the death of the poet's father, to considering th...
Selected Poems