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Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry by John Kinsella (Editor)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
'A very fine anthology, with exemplary introductions. It is refreshing to see how much has been done so well.' - Peter Pierce Wide in scope and bold in ambition, this exciting anthology covers the range of Australian poetic achievement, from early colonial verse through to contemporary work, with a stro ...Show more
Post-colonial by John Kinsella
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Post-colonial is a poetic and wildly experimental account of cultural intrusion and appropriation from one of Australia's finest and most prolific writers. Questioning what it is that constitutes nation and place, particularly in reference to Australia itself, Kinsella's narrator travels to the Cocos Is ...Show more
Pushing Back by John Kinsella
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'The tall trees nearby called them up and red-tailed black cockatoos carried messages to them that they told no one else about.' Pushing Back is John Kinsella's most haunting and timely fiction to date. It is populated with eccentric, compelling characters, drifters, unlikely friendships, the silences o ...Show more
Sack by Kinsella John
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
This most recent collection from John Kinsella takes its title from a poem of the same name. In the metaphor of the sack tumbling downstream with its cargo of drowned kittens lie layers of use, meaning and representation: love, cruelty, the pastoral, colonisation, landscape and identity. These poems are ...Show more
School Days by John Kinsella
$27.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Recollections of schooldays often provide some of our earliest - and for many - happiest memories. John Kinsella has gathered short memoirs from more than twenty well-know Australians, from writers to sports people, to politicians and others.
Shades of the Sublime &the Beautifu by KINSELLA John
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Explores issues of sublimity and beauty, contemplates the aesthetic and the transcendent, examines nature and the artificial. John Kinsella is one of Australia's most internationally respected poets.
Spirals: Collected Poems Volume Three (2014-2023) by John Kinsella
$55.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Spirals is the third and final volume of John Kinsella’s collected poems and dates from 2014-2023, seeing Kinsella through his fifties and without an end in sight. Spirals is not a case of a poet growing older, steadier, and more sedate but rather brings an ongoing sense of development that is also recu ...Show more
The Ascension of Sheep: Collected Poems Volume One (1980-2005) by John Kinsella
$55.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
This is the first volume of a three-volume Collected Poems by John Kinsella that dates back to when he was seventeen, and moves on through forty-one-plus years of writing and memorising poetry. Collected in one place for the first time are poems that have appeared in chapbooks or other publications outs ...Show more
The Jaguar's Dream by John Kinsella
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
In the case of nineteenth-century French poets, including Leconte de Lisle, Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud and Charles Cros, there is close consideration of the traditional conventions of translation; Kinsella produces versions designed to capture the intent and design of the originals. However, wit ...Show more
The Weave by John Kinsella; Thurston Moore
$15.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
'The Weave is the second book collaboration between Thurston Moore and John Kinsella – 'dubbed a work in progress by the two poets, the book guides readers through a world in decay, crafting an invigo rating language of spontaneity and survival out of the destruction. Moore and Kinsella aren't just obse ...Show more