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John Kinsella (poet)

January 01, 1970

For other uses, see John Kinsella (disambiguation).

John Kinsella (born 1963) is an Australian poet, novelist, critic, essayist and editor. His writing is strongly influenced by landscape, and he espouses an "international regionalism" in his approach to place.[1] He has also frequently worked in collaboration with other writers, artists and musicians.

Early life and work edit

Kinsella was born in Perth, Western Australia. His mother was a poet and he began writing poetry as a child. He cites Judith Wright among his early influences. Before becoming a full-time writer, teacher and editor he worked in a variety of places, including laboratories, a fertiliser factory and on farms.

Later poetry and writing edit

Kinsella has published at least fifty books[2] and his many awards include three Western Australian Premier's Book Awards,[3] the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry, the John Bray Award for Poetry, the 2008 Christopher Brennan Award, the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Poetry,[4] the Judith Wright Calanthe Award for poetry (twice)[5] and the Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry.[6]

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 vegan and has written about the ethics of vegetarianism. He has published various books of autobiographical writing including Auto (2001) and Displaced: A Rural Life (2020).[9] He has also written plays, short stories and the novels Genre and Post-colonial.

Kinsella taught at Cambridge University, where he is a Fellow of Churchill College. Previously, he was Professor of English at Kenyon College, United States, where he was the Richard L Thomas Professor of Creative Writing in 2001. He is Emeritus Professor of Literature and Environment at Curtin University[10] and Visiting DAAD Professor in English at University of Tübingen, Germany.[11]

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 edit

Kinsella is a founding editor of the literary journal Salt, and was international editor of the Kenyon Review. He co-edited a special issue on Australian poetry for the American journal Poetry and various other issues of international journals. He was a poetry critic for The Observer and is an editorial consultant for Westerly.

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 edit

Poetry edit

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]
  • Insomnia (2019)
  • The Ascension of Sheep (Collected Poems, vol. 1) (2021)
  • Harsh Hakea (Collected Poems, vol. 2) (2022)

    • 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
    • Night Parrots. 1989.
    • "Fall of windchime". From Pen to Paper. The National Library of Australia Magazine. 6 (4): 7. December 2014.
    Hiss 2014 "Hiss". The New Yorker. Vol. 90, no. 22. 4 August 2014. p. 26.

    Novels edit

    • 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 edit

    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 edit

    • Kinsella, John (2003). Divinations : four plays.

    Non-fiction edit

    • 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

    Interviews edit

    • "The Poetry Kit Interviews John Kinsella", 1998
    • Overland literary journal, interviewed by Tracy Ryan, 24 November 2008

    References edit

    1. ^ "John Kinsella interviewed by Tracy Ryan
    2. ^ 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/
    3. ^ (PDF). Fellowship News. Series 2. Vol. 3, no. 3. April 2005. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 July 2008. Retrieved 19 August 2008.
    4. ^ https://www.wheelercentre.com/victorian-premiers-literary-awards/past-awards/victorian-premiers-literary-awards-2012/
    5. ^ https://guides.lib.uw.edu/c.php?g=341672&p=2299463
    6. ^ https://www.arts.gov.au/pm-literary-awards/shortlist/jam-tree-gully
    7. ^ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/01/16/the-fable-of-the-great-sow
    8. ^ https://www.lrb.co.uk/contributors/john-kinsella
    9. ^ https://westerlymag.com.au/displaced/
    10. ^ https://staffportal.curtin.edu.au/staff/profile/view/john-kinsella-80d6db66/
    11. ^ 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/
    12. ^ Guide to Australian Literary Manuscripts 11 November 2009 at the Wayback Machine
    13. ^ https://ccat.curtin.edu.au/about/news/archive/2018-2/
    14. ^ https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/publications/legibility-an-antifascist-poetics
    15. ^ Kinsella, John (2003), Lightning tree, Arc Publications, ISBN 978-1-86368-153-7
    16. ^ Kinsella, John (1999), Visitants, Bloodaxe Books, ISBN 978-1-85224-505-4
    17. ^ Hewett, Dorothy; Kinsella, John (2000), Wheatlands, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, ISBN 978-1-86368-279-4
      • The Hierarchy of Sheep (2001)
    18. ^ Kinsella, John (2012), Jam tree gully: poems (First ed.), New York W.W. Norton & Co, ISBN 978-0-393-34140-9
    19. ^ Kinsella, John (2016), Drowning in wheat: selected poems 1980-2015 (Main market ed.), Picador, ISBN 978-1-4472-2148-7
    20. ^ Kinsella, John (1997), Genre, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, ISBN 978-1-86368-192-6
    21. ^ Kinsella, John; Birns, Nicholas (2009), Post-colonial : a récit, Papertiger Media, ISBN 978-0-9579411-7-5
    22. ^ Kinsella, John (2018), Lucida intervalla, UWA Publishing, ISBN 978-1-76080-007-9
    23. ^ Kinsella, John (September 2019), Hollow Earth, Transit Lounge Publishing (published 2019), ISBN 978-1-925760-27-9
    24. ^ Kinsella, John (2020), "Hotel Impossible", CounterText, 6 (2): 239–381, doi:10.3366/count.2020.0196, ISSN 2056-4414, S2CID 241079559
    25. ^ Kinsella, John (2023), Cellnight: a verse novel, Transit Lounge Publishing, ISBN 9780648414094

    External links edit

    • '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.
    • .
    • 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.
    • .
    • Audio: John Kinsella reads "Rapture: Tim Discovers the Cosmos" from the book Divine Comedy: Journeys Through A Regional Geography (via )
    • [usurped]

    January 01, 1970
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For other uses see John Kinsella disambiguation John Kinsella born 1963 is an Australian poet novelist critic essayist and editor His writing is strongly influenced by landscape and he espouses an international regionalism in his approach to place 1 He has also frequently worked in collaboration with other writers artists and musicians Contents 1 Early life and work 2 Later poetry and writing 3 Work as an editor and critic 4 Bibliography 4 1 Poetry 4 2 Novels 4 3 Short fiction 4 4 Plays 4 5 Non fiction 5 Interviews 6 References 7 External linksEarly life and work editKinsella was born in Perth Western Australia His mother was a poet and he began writing poetry as a child He cites Judith Wright among his early influences Before becoming a full time writer teacher and editor he worked in a variety of places including laboratories a fertiliser factory and on farms Later poetry and writing editKinsella has published at least fifty books 2 and his many awards include three Western Australian Premier s Book Awards 3 the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry the John Bray Award for Poetry the 2008 Christopher Brennan Award the Victorian Premier s Literary Award for Poetry 4 the Judith Wright Calanthe Award for poetry twice 5 and the Australian Prime Minister s Literary Award for Poetry 6 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 amp 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 vegan and has written about the ethics of vegetarianism He has published various books of autobiographical writing including Auto 2001 and Displaced A Rural Life 2020 9 He has also written plays short stories and the novels Genre and Post colonial Kinsella taught at Cambridge University where he is a Fellow of Churchill College Previously he was Professor of English at Kenyon College United States where he was the Richard L Thomas Professor of Creative Writing in 2001 He is Emeritus Professor of Literature and Environment at Curtin University 10 and Visiting DAAD Professor in English at University of Tubingen Germany 11 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 editKinsella is a founding editor of the literary journal Salt and was international editor of the Kenyon Review He co edited a special issue on Australian poetry for the American journal Poetry and various other issues of international journals He was a poetry critic for The Observer and is an editorial consultant for Westerly 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 editPoetry edit 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 Insomnia 2019 The Ascension of Sheep Collected Poems vol 1 2021 Harsh Hakea Collected Poems vol 2 2022 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 Night Parrots 1989 Fall of windchime From Pen to Paper The National Library of Australia Magazine 6 4 7 December 2014 Hiss 2014 Hiss The New Yorker Vol 90 no 22 4 August 2014 p 26 Novels edit 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 edit 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 edit Kinsella John 2003 Divinations four plays Non fiction edit 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 PressInterviews edit The Poetry Kit Interviews John Kinsella 1998 1 Overland literary journal interviewed by Tracy Ryan 24 November 2008References edit 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 amp 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 Kinsella John 2003 Lightning tree Arc Publications ISBN 978 1 86368 153 7 Kinsella John 1999 Visitants Bloodaxe Books ISBN 978 1 85224 505 4 Hewett Dorothy Kinsella John 2000 Wheatlands Fremantle Arts Centre Press ISBN 978 1 86368 279 4 The Hierarchy of Sheep 2001 Kinsella John 2012 Jam tree gully poems First ed New York W W Norton amp Co ISBN 978 0 393 34140 9 Kinsella John 2016 Drowning in wheat selected poems 1980 2015 Main market ed Picador ISBN 978 1 4472 2148 7 Kinsella John 1997 Genre Fremantle Arts Centre Press ISBN 978 1 86368 192 6 Kinsella John Birns Nicholas 2009 Post colonial a recit Papertiger Media ISBN 978 0 9579411 7 5 Kinsella John 2018 Lucida intervalla UWA Publishing ISBN 978 1 76080 007 9 Kinsella John September 2019 Hollow Earth Transit Lounge Publishing published 2019 ISBN 978 1 925760 27 9 Kinsella John 2020 Hotel Impossible CounterText 6 2 239 381 doi 10 3366 count 2020 0196 ISSN 2056 4414 S2CID 241079559 Kinsella John 2023 Cellnight a verse novel Transit Lounge Publishing ISBN 9780648414094External links edit 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 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