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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Poetry | The Online Edition
Calorific
John Kinsella
‘They are superbly and viscerally unreal / and I feel their living drive’
Poetry | The Online Edition
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.’
Poetry | The Online Edition
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’
Poetry | The Online Edition
Tether Tennis
John Kinsella
‘Tryptamine skies and the forehand backhand falter / in earth’s revolutions’
Poetry | The Online Edition
Neoterics and the Field
(out of Callimachus)
John Kinsella
‘This oven this earth as dust this water we watch vanish and ancient’
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
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.’