John Kinsella
John Kinsella’s recent books of poetry include The Wound, Insomnia and Brimstone: A Book of Villanelles. His many awards include the Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry. He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, and Professor of Literature and Environment at Curtin University, Western Australia.
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Poetry
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Issue 153
Third Eclogue of the Vegetable Garden
John Kinsella
‘What you don’t know set / against all you want to know’
Poetry | Issue 153
Neoterics and the Field
(out of Callimachus)
John Kinsella
‘This oven this earth as dust this water we watch vanish and ancient’
Poetry | Issue 153
Tether Tennis
John Kinsella
‘Tryptamine skies and the forehand backhand falter / in earth’s revolutions’
Poetry | Issue 153
The Burning of the Rocks
John Kinsella
‘What locked-away / state of unawareness, other life form, / brings desire to combust / out of rock exposed to flame’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 153
Poetry Parnassus
Various Contributors
‘There is something about a gathering of 150 poets and writers that makes me think about justice and hope, about the possibility of seeing the world differently.’
Poetry | Issue 153
I had wondered about the signs of burning
John Kinsella
‘None of it made sense. The house shows / no signs – the old core of the house as it is now – / of fire, of giving up the ghost.’