The Ascension of Sheep
Collected Poems Volume One (1980-2005)
$45.24
- Paperback
852 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2022
Summary
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 outside Australia, or that have are out of print.
Kinsella’s major poetic concerns have been how to write place without claiming place (he acknowledges he lives on stolen Aborigina…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781760802134 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1760802131 |
| Author: | John Kinsella |
| Publisher: | UWA Publishing |
| Imprint: | UWA Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 852 |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2022 |
| Weight: | 890g |
| Dimensions: | 153mm x 234mm |
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John Kinsella
John Kinsella is one of, if not the most, prolific Australian poets alive. His most recent volumes of poetry are On the Outskirts (UQP, 2017) Firebreaks (WW Norton, 2016), Drowning in Wheat: Selected poems 19802015 (Picador, 2016), and the three volume edition of his Graphology Poems 19952015 (Five Islands Press, 2016). His poetry collections have won a variety of awards, including the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry and the Christopher Brennan Award for Poetry. His volumes of stories include In the Shade of the Shady Tree (Ohio University Press, 2012), Crow’s Breath (Transit Lounge, 2015), and Old Growth (Transit Lounge, 2017). He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, and Professor of Literature and Environment at Curtin University. He lives with his family in the Western Australian wheatbelt.
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