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'In this visceral and assured sextet of poems, John Kinsella lays down his vision of an urgent and uncompromising poetics and politics of land. By turns searing and subdued, the poems in this collection grow, like the recurring image of harsh Hakea within it, out of the back country and small towns of the West Australian wheat belt, where ‘behind every veneer of trees’ there is ‘a suburb, a road widening’.
'This is land as endangered ecosystem – each word planted ‘against the light’ in retaliation, in rage, against the impact of industry and indifference on the environment.
'Yet these words are also planted ‘hopefully restoratively’, within poems that are as much a tribute to nature as they are a protest against its degradation.' (Publisher's blurb)
Notes
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Launched 20 November 2013.
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Dedication: This book is dedicated to Niall Lucy, and thanks, as always, to Tracy.
Contents
- Harsh Hakea (or Elements of the Subject's Will)i"All distant buildings, if visible, are white", single work poetry (p. 9-32)
- Requiemi"Remember where you've come from", single work poetry (p. 33-52)
- Harvest Bani"Rain snapped the spark, lightning-fraught", single work poetry (p. 53-73)
- The Vision of Errori"Artificial life created on a typewriter", single work poetry (p. 74-91)
- Heroi"Eyes tone the visor like a preface.", single work poetry (p. 92-115)
- The Killing State/The Murdering Statei"By the grace of goes the grace of grace,", single work poetry (p. 116 - 126)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Phillip Hall Reviews The Vision of Error and Tide by John Kinsella
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , February 2015;
— Review of The Vision of Error : A Sextet of Activist Poems 2013 selected work poetry ; Tide 2013 selected work short story -
An Honest, Fierce Response
2015
single work
correspondence
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 370 2015; -
A Deeply Felt Love of Land and the Possible Activist : John Kinsella’s The Vision of Error
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Verity La , September 2014;
— Review of The Vision of Error : A Sextet of Activist Poems 2013 selected work poetry -
‘Distant and Kindred Analogies’ in Recent Australian Poetry
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , June vol. 59 no. 1 2014; (p. 144-163)
— Review of Threefer 2013 selected work poetry ; Towns in the Great Desert 2012 selected work poetry ; Hotel Hyperion 2013 selected work poetry ; The Best Australian Poems 2013 2013 selected work poetry ; The Vision of Error : A Sextet of Activist Poems 2013 selected work poetry ; Night Writing 2014 selected work poetry ; Even in the Dark 2013 selected work poetry ; Unbelievers, or 'The Moor' 2013 selected work poetry ; Ephemeral Waters 2013 selected work poetry ; New Selected Poems 2013 selected work poetry ; Leaves of Glass 2013 selected work poetry ; Unearthed 2013 selected work poetry ; Goad Omen 2013 selected work poetry -
The Academy Applauds
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , April vol. 18 no. 1 2014;
— Review of The Vision of Error : A Sextet of Activist Poems 2013 selected work poetry
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Bully-Proof
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , February 2014;
— Review of In the Shade of the Shady Tree : Stories of Wheatbelt Australia 2012 selected work short story ; Tide 2013 selected work short story ; Armour 2011 selected work poetry ; The Vision of Error : A Sextet of Activist Poems 2013 selected work poetry -
Geoff Page Reviews John Kinsella
2014
single work
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 46.0 2014;
— Review of The Vision of Error : A Sextet of Activist Poems 2013 selected work poetry -
The Academy Applauds
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , April vol. 18 no. 1 2014;
— Review of The Vision of Error : A Sextet of Activist Poems 2013 selected work poetry -
‘Distant and Kindred Analogies’ in Recent Australian Poetry
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , June vol. 59 no. 1 2014; (p. 144-163)
— Review of Threefer 2013 selected work poetry ; Towns in the Great Desert 2012 selected work poetry ; Hotel Hyperion 2013 selected work poetry ; The Best Australian Poems 2013 2013 selected work poetry ; The Vision of Error : A Sextet of Activist Poems 2013 selected work poetry ; Night Writing 2014 selected work poetry ; Even in the Dark 2013 selected work poetry ; Unbelievers, or 'The Moor' 2013 selected work poetry ; Ephemeral Waters 2013 selected work poetry ; New Selected Poems 2013 selected work poetry ; Leaves of Glass 2013 selected work poetry ; Unearthed 2013 selected work poetry ; Goad Omen 2013 selected work poetry -
Phillip Hall Reviews The Vision of Error and Tide by John Kinsella
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , February 2015;
— Review of The Vision of Error : A Sextet of Activist Poems 2013 selected work poetry ; Tide 2013 selected work short story -
X Marks the Parataxis : Louis Armand, John Kinsella and Jessica L. Wilkinson
2014
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 46.0 2014; 'Displacement is apparent both geographically and textually in Letters from Ausland by Louis Armand, The Vision of Error by John Kinsella (subtitled, ‘A Sextet of Activist Poems’) and marionette by jessica l. wilkinson (written here all in lower-case and subtitled, ‘a biography of miss marion davies’). All three poets are or have been editors of literary magazines: Armand edits VLAK, out of Prague; Kinsella, SALT; and Wilkinson, Rabbit (why does this name always remind me of Wittgenstein’s drawing of a rabbit that can also be perceived as a duck?) Armand and Kinsella have also collaborated on a number of books.' (Author's introduction) -
An Honest, Fierce Response
2015
single work
correspondence
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 370 2015;