John Kinsella (poet)
John Kinsella (born 1963) is an Australian
Early life and work
Kinsella was born in
Later poetry and writing
Kinsella has published at least fifty books
His poems have appeared in journals such as Stand, The Times Literary Supplement, The Kenyon Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, The New Yorker,[7] the London Review of Books[8] and Antipodes. His poetry collections include: Poems 1980-1994, The Silo, The Undertow: New & Selected Poems, Visitants (1999), Wheatlands (with Dorothy Hewett, 2000) and The Hierarchy of Sheep (2001). His book, Peripheral Light: New and Selected Poems, includes an introduction by Harold Bloom and his poetry collection, The New Arcadia, was published in June 2005. Drowning in Wheat: Selected Poems appeared in 2016, and Insomnia in 2019. After these came the first two volumes of his collected poems: The Ascension of Sheep (2021) and Harsh Hakea (2022).
Kinsella is a
Kinsella taught at
Kinsella's manuscripts are housed in the University of Western Australia, the National Library of Australia, the University of New South Wales, Kenyon College and the University of Leeds. The main collection is in Special Collections in the University of Western Australia Library.[12]
Kinsella's 2010 book, Activist Poetics: Anarchy in the Avon Valley, was published by Liverpool University Press and is edited by Niall Lucy.
Work as an editor and critic
Kinsella is a founding editor of the literary journal Salt, and was international editor of the
He is editor of the Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry (2008), and co-editor with Tracy Ryan of the Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry (2017).
His critical works include the poetics of place trilogy, Disclosed Poetics: beyond landscape and lyricism (2007), Polysituatedness (2017)[13] and Beyond Ambiguity (2021). In these he posits his theory of "international regionalism" and "polysituatedness". The recent critical work Legibility: an anti-fascist poetics extends Kinsella's thinking around the intersections of pacifism, protest, human rights, animal rights, environmentalism, anarchism, veganism and the role of poetry in resisting fascism.[14]
Bibliography
Poetry
Collections
- The Book of Two Faces: Poems. 1989.
- Night Parrots. 1989.
- Ultramarine: Poems (1991)
- Eschatologies (1991)
- Poems (1991)
- Full Fathom Five (1993)
- Syzygy (1993)
- The Silo: A Pastoral Symphony: Poems (1995)
- Erratum / Frame(d) (1995)
- Intensities of Blue: Poems (1995)
- The Radnoti Poems (1996)
- Lightning Tree (1996)[15]
- The Undertow: New and Selected Poems (1996)
- Poems, 1980–1994 (1997)
- Lines of Sight (1997)
- The Hunt and Other Poems (1998)
- Pine: Poems (1998)
- Counter-Pastoral (1999)
- Visitants (1999)[16]
- Fenland Pastorals (1999)
- Zone (2000)
- Wheatlands (2000)[17]
- Rivers (2002)
- Peripheral Light: New and Selected Poems (2003)
- Doppler Effect (2004)
- The New Arcadia (2005)
- Love Sonnets (2006)
- America, or Glow: (A Poem) (2006)
- Divine Comedy: Journeys Through Regional Geography (2008)
- Shades of the Sublime and Beautiful (2008)
- Jam Tree Gully (2011)[18]
- Sack (2014)
- Drowning in Wheat: Selected Poems (2016)[19]
List of poems
Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
---|---|---|---|
The Fable of the Great Sow | 2012 | "The Fable of the Great Sow". The New Yorker. Vol. 87, no. 44. 16 January 2012. | |
Fall of windchime |
| ||
Hiss | 2014 | "Hiss". The New Yorker. Vol. 90, no. 22. 4 August 2014. p. 26. |
Novels
- Kinsella, John (1997). Genre.[20]
- Post-colonial (2009)[21]
- Lucida Intervalla (2018)[22]
- Hollow Earth (2019)[23]
- Hotel Impossible (2020)[24]
- Cellnight: a verse novel (2023)[25]
Short fiction
- Collections
- Kinsella, John (1998). Grappling Eros : fiction.
- Conspiracies (2003)
- In the Shade of the Shady Tree (Ohio University Press, 2012)
- Tide (Transit Lounge, 2013)
- Crow's Breath and Other Stories (Transit Lounge, 2015)
- Old Growth (Transit Lounge, 2017)
- Pushing Back (2021)
Plays
- Kinsella, John (2003). Divinations : four plays.
Non-fiction
- Kinsella, John, ed. (1992). The bird catcher's song : a Salt anthology of contemporary poetry.
- —, ed. (1995). Sightings : poems for International PEN 62nd World Congress.
- —, ed. (1999). Landbridge : contemporary Australian poetry.
- —, ed. (2002). The owner of my face : new and selected poems.
- —, ed. (2002). Michael Dransfield : a retrospective.
- —, ed. (2003). Western Australian writing : an online anthology.
- —, ed. (2006). School days.
- —, ed. (2008). Over there : poems from Singapore and Australia.
- — (2008). Contrary rhetoric : lectures on landscape and language.
- —, ed. (2009). The Penguin anthology of Australian poetry.
- Autobiography / memoir
- Kinsella, John (2001). Auto.
- — (2006). Fast, loose beginnings : a memoir of intoxications.
- — (2020). Displaced: A Rural Life.
- Essays and reporting
- Kinsella, John (December 2014). "Fall of windchime". From Pen to Paper. The National Library of Australia Magazine. 6 (4): 7.
- Miscellaneous
- Kinsella, John; Drewe, Robert (2010), Sand, Fremantle Press
Interviews
- "The Poetry Kit Interviews John Kinsella", 1998 [1]
- Overland literary journal, interviewed by Tracy Ryan, 24 November 2008
References
- ^ "John Kinsella interviewed by Tracy Ryan
- ^ https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/fakultaeten/philosophische-fakultaet/fachbereiche/neuphilologie/englisches-seminar/sections/english-literatures-and-cultures/anglophone-literary-cultures-and-global-south-studies/john-kinsella-daad-visiting-professor/
- ^ "Welcome Aboard, John Kinsella" (PDF). Fellowship News. Series 2. Vol. 3, no. 3. April 2005. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 July 2008. Retrieved 19 August 2008.
- ^ https://www.wheelercentre.com/victorian-premiers-literary-awards/past-awards/victorian-premiers-literary-awards-2012/
- ^ https://guides.lib.uw.edu/c.php?g=341672&p=2299463
- ^ https://www.arts.gov.au/pm-literary-awards/shortlist/jam-tree-gully
- ^ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/01/16/the-fable-of-the-great-sow
- ^ https://www.lrb.co.uk/contributors/john-kinsella
- ^ https://westerlymag.com.au/displaced/
- ^ https://staffportal.curtin.edu.au/staff/profile/view/john-kinsella-80d6db66/
- ^ https://uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/philosophische-fakultaet/fachbereiche/neuphilologie/englisches-seminar/sections/english-literatures-and-cultures/anglophone-literary-cultures-and-global-south-studies/john-kinsella-daad-visiting-professor/
- ^ Guide to Australian Literary Manuscripts Archived 11 November 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ https://ccat.curtin.edu.au/about/news/archive/2018-2/
- ^ https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/publications/legibility-an-antifascist-poetics
- ISBN 978-1-86368-153-7
- ISBN 978-1-85224-505-4
- ISBN 978-1-86368-279-4
- The Hierarchy of Sheep (2001)
- ISBN 978-0-393-34140-9
- ISBN 978-1-4472-2148-7
- ISBN 978-1-86368-192-6
- ISBN 978-0-9579411-7-5
- ISBN 978-1-76080-007-9
- ISBN 978-1-925760-27-9
- S2CID 241079559
- ISBN 9780648414094
External links
- 'X Marks the Parataxis: Louis Armand, John Kinsella and Jessica L. Wilkinson' in Cordite Poetry Review.
- 'John Kinsella's Poetics of Distraction' in Cordite Poetry Review.
- Three poems.
- Parrotology: On the Necessity of Parrots in Poetry essay by John Kinsella at the Australian Book Review.
- 'America' reviewed by Abena Sutherland in poetry mag "Intercapillary Space".
- Mutually Said: Poets Vegan Anarchist Pacifist, the blog that he shares with Tracy Ryan.
- soi 3 publicity page for Post-colonial.
- Audio: John Kinsella reads "Rapture: Tim Discovers the Cosmos" from the book Divine Comedy: Journeys Through A Regional Geography (via poemsoutloud.net)
- "John Kinsella's Shades of the Sublime and Beautiful reviewed by Nicholas Pierpan" at Tower Magazine
- Profile at Bloodaxe Books
- Review of Armour in the Oxonian Review.[usurped]