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Notes
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Dedication: For my brother Stephen.
Contents
* Contents derived from the
South Fremantle,
Fremantle area,
South West Perth,
Perth,
Western Australia,:Fremantle Press
, 1995 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- On Arriving at a Deserted House Deep in the Country after Running Over a Rabbit on a Gravel Road, at Nighti"The flywire door slams ominously", single work poetry (p. 12-13)
- Brothers Trapping Parrots at Mullewai"Using an old bed base", single work poetry (p. 14-15)
- Checking the Sheep Two Mornings After the Glad Dayi"Transpires from breakfast", single work poetry (p. 16-17)
- The Hay King's Recalcitrant Daughteri"Of all he surveys least surveyed", single work poetry (p. 18)
- Hydraulics, Fly Wheels, Saw, and PTOi"A regressive hiss settles pneumatics,", single work poetry (p. 19)
- The Ascension of Sheepi"The sun has dragged", single work poetry (p. 20)
- Intervention (Or an Encounter with a Bat)i"Walking barefoot from Happy Valley", single work poetry (p. 21-22)
- Hoppers and Gargoylesi"A screw drives the lupins towards the chute,", single work poetry (p. 23)
- Rust and Blue Vinyl Exterior : 1 : Shearing Shedi"Elevators at a tilt, rain tanks sinking,", single work poetry (p. 24)
- Rust and Blue Vinyl Exterior, single work poetry (p. 24-25)
- Rust and Blue Vinyl Exterior : 2 : Abandoned Homesteadi"All-weather blue vinyl paint for timber and masonry", single work poetry (p. 25)
- The Paintingi"The house yard harbours plumes of rust-faced dock concentrated", single work poetry (p. 26-27)
- Sculpting a Poem from the Landscape's Painting, sequence poetry (p. 26-28)
- The Poemi"A room that is poorly lit apart from a fire spitting", single work poetry (p. 27-28)
- Envoii"It is summer now and the water in the dams is diminishiing.", single work poetry (p. 28)
- The Fire Mist: The Return from Exile?i"Stalling at the point of entering", single work poetry (p. 29-31)
- Conceit and the Hay Rake: A Rural Patriarchyi"The hand can but suggest, there's no touching", single work poetry (p. 32)
- Rock Picking: Building Cairnsi"The spine is best kept straight -", single work poetry (p. 33-34)
- Poem for Those at Wheatlandsi"You only realise", single work poetry (p. 35)
- Corni"Harvest is still", single work poetry (p. 36)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Salt Scars : John Kinsella's Wheatbelt
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , vol. 27 no. 2 2012; (p. 18-31) -
John Kinsella's Anti-Pastoral : A Western Australian Poetics of Place
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 24 no. 1 2010; (p. 91-96) -
Myths of the Wheatbelt
2005
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Island , Spring no. 102 2005; (p. 24-40) Contrary Rhetoric : Lectures on Landscape and Language 2008; (p. 162-200) -
Tradition and Questioning : The Silo as Pastoral Symphony
2000
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Fairly Obsessive : Essays on the Works of John Kinsella 2000; (p. 89-102) -
Poetry in Australia, New Zealand and the Caribbean
1998
single work
review
— Appears in: English Studies , May vol. 79 no. 3 1998; (p. 266-269)
— Review of Subhuman Redneck Poems 1996 selected work poetry ; The Silo : A Pastoral Symphony : Poems 1995 selected work poetry
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Untitled
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , December 1995 and January vol. 10 no. 3 1996; (p. 20-21)
— Review of The Silo : A Pastoral Symphony : Poems 1995 selected work poetry -
Reviews
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: Scarp , October no. 29 1996; (p. 53-57)
— Review of Monkey's Wedding 1995 selected work poetry ; The Silo : A Pastoral Symphony : Poems 1995 selected work poetry ; The Colour of Maps 1995 selected work poetry ; Learning to Breathe under Water 1995 selected work poetry ; The City of Home 1995 selected work poetry -
Untitled
1995
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , Summer vol. 40 no. 4 1995; (p. 96-99)
— Review of Mind in Need of a Desert 1995 selected work poetry ; Black Night with Windows 1994 selected work poetry ; The Silo : A Pastoral Symphony : Poems 1995 selected work poetry ; Strange Journey : Poems 1995 selected work poetry -
Sweeno's Beano
1998
single work
review
— Appears in: London Review of Books , 1 October vol. 20 no. 19 1998; (p. 35,38)
— Review of Poems, 1980-1994 1997 selected work poetry ; The Silo : A Pastoral Symphony : Poems 1995 selected work poetry ; The Kangaroo Farm 1997 selected work poetry -
Middle Period
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 144 1996; (p. 86-88)
— Review of A Salt Reader 1995 anthology poetry obituary biography interview ; Mortal Instruments : Poems 1990-1995 1995 selected work poetry ; The Silo : A Pastoral Symphony : Poems 1995 selected work poetry ; Winds of Change : Poems by Marjorie Pizer 1984 - 1994 1995 selected work poetry ; Throwaway Moon : new and selected poems 1995 selected work poetry ; Cold Wires of Rain 1995 selected work poetry ; Deja Vu Tours 1995 selected work poetry -
Myths of the Wheatbelt
2005
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Island , Spring no. 102 2005; (p. 24-40) Contrary Rhetoric : Lectures on Landscape and Language 2008; (p. 162-200) -
John Kinsella's Anti-Pastoral : A Western Australian Poetics of Place
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 24 no. 1 2010; (p. 91-96) -
Salt Scars : John Kinsella's Wheatbelt
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , vol. 27 no. 2 2012; (p. 18-31) -
Poet Kinsella Pushes Images of WA
1996
single work
column
biography
— Appears in: The West Australian , 12 September 1996; (p. 1-2) -
Tradition and Questioning : The Silo as Pastoral Symphony
2000
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Fairly Obsessive : Essays on the Works of John Kinsella 2000; (p. 89-102)
Awards
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