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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.’

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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