John Kinsella (poet)

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. He has also frequently worked in collaboration with other writers, artists and musicians.

Early life and work

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

Kinsella has published over thirty books and his many awards include three Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry, the John Bray Award for Poetry, and the 2008 Christopher Brennan Award.
His poems have appeared in journals such as Stand, The Times Literary Supplement, The Kenyon Review, Poetry Salzburg Review 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.
Kinsella is a vegan and has written about the ethics of vegetarianism. In 2001 he published a book of autobiographical writing, called Auto. He has also written plays, short stories and the novels Genre and Post-colonial.
Kinsella teaches 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.
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.
Kinsella's latest book, Activist Poetics: Anarchy in the Avon Valley, was published in 2010 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 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.

Bibliography

Poetry

Collections

Kinsella, John (1989). The book of two faces : poems.
— (1989). Night Parrots.
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)
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)
Fenland Pastorals (1999)
Zone (2000)
Wheatlands (2000)
The Hierarchy of Sheep (2001)
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)
Sack (2014)
Drowning in Wheat (2016)

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. 87 (44). January 16, 2012. Retrieved 2015-07-14.
Fall of windchime			Night Parrots. 1989. "Fall of windchime". From Pen to Paper. The National Library of Australia Magazine. 6 (4): 7. December 2014.

Fiction

Novels

Kinsella, John (1997). Genre.
"Post-colonial" (2009)

Short story collections

Kinsella, John (1998). Grappling Eros : fiction.
Conspiracies (2003)

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). Dreamhoard : pipe dreams, daydreams, reveries and nightmares.
—, 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

Kinsella, John (2001). Auto.
— (2006). Fast, loose beginnings : a memoir of intoxications.

Essays and reporting

Kinsella, John (December 2014). "Fall of windchime". From Pen to Paper. The National Library of Australia Magazine. 6 (4): 7.

Interviews

"The Poetry Kit Interviews John Kinsella", 1998
"overland", interviewed by Tracy Ryan, 24 November 2008

Biografia
Ho creato un elenco di discussione di poesia e-mail di primo piano - poetryetc - alcuni anni fa. Sono un pacifista anarchico vegano di 16 anni. Sono editore e redattore internazionale di un certo numero di noti periodici letterari e ho pubblicato oltre 30 libri di poesia, prosa, ecc. Sono un critico letterario e un commentatore culturale, con sede a Cambridge University in Inghilterra, anche se attualmente lavoro come professore negli Stati Uniti. ho anche una cattedra a contratto in Australia. Sono un sostenitore dei diritti indigeni a livello mondiale e un sostenitore assoluto dei diritti fondiari - senza il quale, concordo, non può esserci riconciliazione. sono contro il nazionalismo e lo stato-nazione centralizzato - che vedo come la radice di molti mali. Credo che il "controllo" del linguaggio sia il fattore più significativo nel resistere alla colonizzazione, all'invasione e all'oppressione. Credo nella vita della comunità decentrata, nell'uguaglianza di uomini e animali e nel rispetto della terra. sono totalmente contrario a qualsiasi forma di violenza. e infine, credo nel rispetto culturale e di genere. fratelli e sorelle insieme !!

Biography
i established a prominent email poetry discussion list - poetryetc - some years ago. i am a vegan anarchist pacifist of 16 years. i am editor and international editor of a number of well-known literary journals and have had over 30 books of poetry, prose etc published. i am a literary critic and cultural commentator, based at cambridge university in england, though am at present working as a professor in the u.s. i also hold an adjunct professorship in australia. i am a supporter of worldwide indigenous rights, and an absolute supporter of land rights - without which, i agree, there can be no reconciliation. i am against nationalism and the centralised nation-state - which i see as the root of many evils. i believe that the 'control' of language is the most significant factor in resisting colonisation, invasion, and oppression. i believe in decentralised community living, the equality of humans and animals, and respect for the land. i am totally against any form of violence. and finally, i believe in cultural and gender respect. brothers and sisters together!!

Books
Zone [PDF Format]

http://www.johnkinsella.org/

Per me, la poesia non ha motivo di esistere se non vuole essere un aiuto o un aiuto al cambiamento politico ed etico.
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For me, poetry has no point in existing if it's not to be a prompt or aid to political and ethical change.
John Kinsella

Although in society in general, the idea of an Irish composer of 'classical music', or whatever you want to call it, is still a strange item, generally speaking. Even in the arts, among our fellow creative artists in other disciplines, you still feel slightly out of it.
John Kinsella

Senza stile, non può esserci identità.
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Per me, la misura di un poema è la parola, non la linea.
John Kinsella