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'With Armour, the great Australian poet John Kinsella has written his most spiritual work to date - and his most politically engaged. The world in which these poems unfold is strangely poised between the material and the immaterial, and everything which enters it - kestrel and fox, moth and almond - does so illuminated by its own vivid presence: the impression is less a poet honouring his subjects than uncannily inhabiting them. Elsewhere we find a poetry of lyric protest, as Kinsella scrutinizes the equivocal place of the human within this natural landscape, both as tenant and self-appointed steward.
'Armour is a beautifully various work, one of sharp ecological and social critique - but also one of meticulous invocation and quiet astonishment, whose atmosphere will haunt the reader long after they close the book.' (From the publisher's website.)
Notes
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Dedication:
for Tracy
and to the memory of
Peter Porter,
friend and mentor
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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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 -
[Untitled]
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 73 no. 3 2013; (p. 253-259)
— Review of Jam Tree Gully : Poems 2012 selected work poetry ; Armour 2011 selected work poetry -
Crossing Over
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 27 July no. 5704 2012; (p. 23)
— Review of Armour 2011 selected work poetry ; The Jaguar's Dream : Translations, Adaptations, Versions, Extrapolations, Interpolations, Afters, Takes and Departures 2012 selected work poetry ; In the Shade of the Shady Tree : Stories of Wheatbelt Australia 2012 selected work short story -
The Awkwardness of Ethics Caught in the Headlights of a Car
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 17-18 March 2012; (p. 20-21)
— Review of Armour 2011 selected work poetry -
Engaging with the Lores of the Land
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 10 March 2012; (p. 31) The Sydney Morning Herald , 17-18 March 2012; (p. 37)
— Review of Armour 2011 selected work poetry
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A Sense of Embattlement
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 11 February 2012; (p. 26)
— Review of Armour 2011 selected work poetry ; The Abbotsford Mysteries 2011 selected work poetry -
Engaging with the Lores of the Land
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 10 March 2012; (p. 31) The Sydney Morning Herald , 17-18 March 2012; (p. 37)
— Review of Armour 2011 selected work poetry -
The Awkwardness of Ethics Caught in the Headlights of a Car
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 17-18 March 2012; (p. 20-21)
— Review of Armour 2011 selected work poetry -
Crossing Over
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 27 July no. 5704 2012; (p. 23)
— Review of Armour 2011 selected work poetry ; The Jaguar's Dream : Translations, Adaptations, Versions, Extrapolations, Interpolations, Afters, Takes and Departures 2012 selected work poetry ; In the Shade of the Shady Tree : Stories of Wheatbelt Australia 2012 selected work short story -
Kinsella Joins T. S. Eliot Prize Boycott
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , November - December no. 1 2011;
— Review of Armour 2011 selected work poetry -
Stay in Touch With : The Poet Who Hates Capitalism
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 16 December 2011; (p. 22) 'The Australian poet John Kinsella, who withdrew from Britain's T. S. Eliot prize last week over its sponsorship by an investment firm, Aurum Fund Management, has now laid out his own poetic manifesto in the leftie mag the New Statesman, The Guardian reports.' -
Second Poet Pulls Out of TS Eliot Prize
2011
single work
column
— Appears in: The Guardian , 8 December 2011; (p. 19) Alison Flood reports on John Kinsella's withdrawal from the 2011 T. S. Eliot Prize following his shortlisting for the award. Kinsella told the Guardian newspaper that 'I regret that I must do this at a particularly difficult time for the Poetry Book Society but the business of Aurum [the prize's sponsor] does not sit with my personal politics and ethics'.
Awards
- 2012 winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Prize for Poetry
- 2012 shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards — Poetry
- 2011 shortlisted Western Australian Premier's Book Awards — Poetry
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2011
shortlisted
T.S. Eliot Prize
John Kinsella withdrew from the 2011 T. S. Eliot Prize following his shortlisting. He issued a statement through his publisher saying: 'I regret that I must do this at a particularly difficult time for the Poetry Book Society but the business of Aurum [the prize sponsor] does not sit with my personal politics and ethics'.
Source: Guardian, 7 December 2011
Sighted: 05/01/2011