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ART by Charmaine Papertalk Green, John Kinsella
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian art
ART is the second collaborative poetry work from Charmaine Papertalk Green and John Kinsella. It is a formidable call and response piece that builds on the stunning dialogue the two authors began on paper in False Claims of Colonial Thieves (2018). While ART is a collaborative work, each poet’s contribu ...Show more
Crow's Breath by John Kinsella
$25.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry and Christopher Brennan Award (for lifetime achievement in poetry) and shortlisted in the Steele Rudd Prize for a collection of short fiction, John Kinsella returns with a not-to-be-missed addition to the canon of one of Australia's most original ...Show more
Displaced - A Rural Life by John Kinsella
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
John Kinsella's memoir of his rural life takes us deep into the heart of what it means to belong and unbelong. The joys and travails of childhood, adult addictions, missteps and changing directions are acutely captured in poignant and poetic detail. While centred on Jam Tree Gully in rural Western Austr ...Show more
False Claims of Colonial Thieves by Charmaine Papertalk Green, John Kinsella
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
From well-known poets Charmaine Papertalk Green and John Kinsella comes a tete-a-tete that is powerful, thought provoking, challenging and unapologetic. Papertalk Green and Kinsella call into question what we think we know about our country, colonisation, land and identity. Each poem is part of a striki ...Show more
Lucida Intervalla by John Kinsella
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian author
A lucida intervalla is a Latin phrase describing one of those startling 'lucid intervals' experienced by the insane. Lucida Intervalla, as imagined by John Kinsella?the Australian poet and novelist?is an art journalist, artist, and social media sensation whose brilliant presence beguiles every one aroun ...Show more
Mahler Erasures by John Kinsella
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian author | Series: Australian Literature Ser.
Once a fêted literary figure, the former lover of B-list movie star Lucida, but now derelict, incontinent, asexual, ageing poet Harold Lime turns his back on material modernity, withdrawing to a basement in the university town of Cambridge, England. But human connections will prove difficult to sever co ...Show more
Old Growth by John Kinsella
$29.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories (Anthologies)
In this luminous book of new stories, John Kinsella drops us seamlessly into the worlds of men, women and children at pivotal moments in their lives. In the title story, a husband who has lost his wife plans to destroy the old-growth bush she loved and escape to the city, with alarming consequences. Els ...Show more
On the Outskirts by John Kinsella
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Inspired by the natural worlds surrounding T3bingen in Germany, Cambridge in England, the village of Schull in southwest Ireland and the West Australian wheatbelt, Kinsella explores through his poems the protection and valuing of human and animal life, and the environment itself. Reflecting on how the l ...Show more
Open Door by John Kinsella
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
The final book in the Jam Tree Gully trilogy, Open Door continues Kinsella's investigation into environmental responsibility and the complexity of our connection to the land of rural Australia.
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
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