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John Kinsella

John Kinsella’s recent books of poetry include Insomnia (Picador, 2019), Brimstone: a book of villanelles (Arc, 2020), and his collaboration with Kwame Dawes, UnHistory (Peepal tree, 2022). Recent critical titles include Beyond Ambiguity: tracing literary sites of activism (Manchester University Press, 2021) and Legibility: an anti-fascist poetics (Palgrave, 2022). Salt will publish his new poetry collection in the UK, The Pastoraclasm, in March, 2023.

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John Kinsella on Granta.com

Poetry | The Online Edition
Poetry | The Online Edition

Eclogue of the ‘Big Garden’

John Kinsella

‘I will go elsewhere / and remember, recall where / I came from’

A poem by John Kinsella.

Poetry | Issue 153 padlock
Poetry | Issue 153 padlock

Third Eclogue of the Vegetable Garden

John Kinsella

‘What you don’t know set / against all you want to know’

Poetry | Issue 153
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
Poetry | Issue 153

Tether Tennis

John Kinsella

‘Tryptamine skies and the forehand backhand falter / in earth’s revolutions’

Poetry | Issue 153
Poetry | Issue 153

Calorific

John Kinsella

‘They are superbly and viscerally unreal / and I feel their living drive’

Poetry | Issue 153
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
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
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.’

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