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'A follow-up to the critically acclaimed Jam Tree Gully, Firebreaks records life and ecology in Western Australia.
'Known for a poetry both experimental, “activist,” and lyrical that reinvents the pastoral, John Kinsella considers his and his family’s life at Jam Tree Gully, in the Western Australian wheatbelt, and his deeply felt ecological concerns in this new cycle of poems about place, landscape, home, and absence. Part One, “Internal Exile,” explores issues of departure and return as well as alienation in Jam Tree Gully. Part Two, “Inside Out,” reevaluates how Kinsella and his family deal with ideas of “space” and proximity while also looking out into the wider world. How do we read an ecology as refuge? What lines of communication with the outside world need to be kept open? As Paul Kane observed in World Literature Today, “In Kinsella’s poetry . . . are lands marked by isolation and mundane violence and by a terrible transcendent beauty.”' (Publication summary)
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Kernels of Truth
Kinsella Points Finger at Consumerism
2016
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— Appears in: The West Australian , 10 May 2016; (p. 1, 6) 'Poet John Kinsella is deeply troubled about our treatment of the planet, writes William Yeoman.' -
Danger Ahead as Part of a High-Tempo Mix
2016
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 16-17 April 2016; (p. 26) The Age , 16-17 April 2016; (p. 26)
— Review of Firebreaks 2016 selected work poetry ; Drowning in Wheat : Selected Poems 2016 selected work poetry -
On a Spiritual and Poetic Quest
2016
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review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 22-23 October 2016; (p. 21)
— Review of Grass Hut Work 2016 selected work poetry ; Firebreaks 2016 selected work poetry
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Danger Ahead as Part of a High-Tempo Mix
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 16-17 April 2016; (p. 26) The Age , 16-17 April 2016; (p. 26)
— Review of Firebreaks 2016 selected work poetry ; Drowning in Wheat : Selected Poems 2016 selected work poetry -
On a Spiritual and Poetic Quest
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 22-23 October 2016; (p. 21)
— Review of Grass Hut Work 2016 selected work poetry ; Firebreaks 2016 selected work poetry -
Kernels of Truth
Kinsella Points Finger at Consumerism
2016
single work
column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 10 May 2016; (p. 1, 6) 'Poet John Kinsella is deeply troubled about our treatment of the planet, writes William Yeoman.'