{"title":"John Kinsella's Collected Poems (1980-2023)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCollected in one place for the first time are poems that have appeared in chapbooks or other publications outside Australia, or that are out of print. John Kinsella’s major poetic concerns have been how to write place without claiming place (he acknowledges he lives on stolen Aboriginal land), how to write of being part of many place-experiences at once, and how to write the biosphere with ecological and humanitarian justice in mind. Further, his poems consider how we might be regionally communal and internationally responsive at once, without ever succumbing to economic globalism: a mode of living he refers to as ‘international regionalism’. Always attuned to the natural world, his activist poetry examines how humans respond to a world that they themselves have placed under pressure. But his concerns are many, and literature, art and music are ever-present in a poetry that affirms the creative as a potential force for positive change. His embracing of many different poetic forms, along with a merging of the 'lyrical' and 'experimental', seeks to reinforce that diversity is to be celebrated. These volumes of poetry are a landmark addition to Australian literature.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/uwap.uwa.edu.au\/collections\/john-kinsella\" title=\"https:\/\/uwap.uwa.edu.au\/collections\/john-kinsella\"\u003eSee more works by John Kinsella.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"john-kinsella-the-ascension-of-sheep","title":"The Ascension of Sheep, Collected Poems Volume One (1980-2005)","description":"\u003ch3\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/9h5lw974k7oe6jg4-5424573.shopifypreview.com\/collections\/john-kinsella\" title=\"UWAP John Kinsella Author\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eJohn Kinsella\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the first volume of a three-volume Collected Poems by \u003cstrong\u003eJohn Kinsella\u003c\/strong\u003e 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 are out of print. John Kinsella’s major poetic concerns have been how to write place without claiming place (he acknowledges he lives on stolen Aboriginal land), how to write of being part of many place-experiences at once, and how to write the biosphere with ecological and humanitarian justice in mind. Further, his poems consider how we might be regionally communal and internationally responsive at once, without ever succumbing to economic globalism: a mode of living he refers to as ‘international regionalism’. Always attuned to the natural world, his activist poetry examines how humans respond to a world that they themselves have placed under pressure. But his concerns are many, and literature, art and music are ever-present in a poetry that affirms the creative as a potential force for positive change. His embracing of many different poetic forms, along with a merging of the 'lyrical' and 'experimental', seeks to reinforce that diversity is to be celebrated. These volumes of poetry are a landmark addition to Australian literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWorks of immense range, from extended lyrical meditations to taut experimental sonic poems and everything in between.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-WritingWA\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: February 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrice: $55.00\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e78-1-76080-213-4\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat: 234 x 156 mm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eExtent: 832 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRights: Australia and New Zealand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"UWA Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41357405094088,"sku":"978-1-76080-213-4","price":55.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0542\/4573\/products\/KinsellaCollected_Cover.jpg?v=1639546046"},{"product_id":"harsh-hakea-john-kinsella","title":"Harsh Hakea, Collected Poems Volume Two (2005-2014)","description":"\u003ch3\u003eJohn Kinsella\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHarsh Hakea\u003c\/em\u003e is the second volume of John Kinsella's collected poems and dates from 2005 to 2014, capturing a life's work \u003cem\u003ein medias res\u003c\/em\u003e. It includes poems from widely read volumes like \u003cem\u003eJam Tree Gully\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the 2013 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry, and ones from lesser-known volumes like\u003cem\u003e Love Sonnets\u003c\/em\u003e, which was published by the British small press, Equipage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor the first time, John Kinsella’s poetry is collected in one place, including poems that have appeared in chapbooks, publications outside of Australia, and those which are no longer in print. In this volume, Kinsella’s poetry exemplifies a heightened awareness of the specificity of place, but also of the perspective of being within it or removed from it, as a guest living on stolen Aboriginal land. Kinsella’s poems often begin with the personal and broaden out in their reach, and frequently investigate the contemporary world using and critiquing older literary templates. Questions around the nature of translations, versions and interpretations resonate across the work. Reading this second volume of the \u003cem\u003eCollected\u003c\/em\u003e compels the reader to consider questions that have no convenient answer, that remain pressing still today; questions about the nature of art, masculinity, environmentalism, human and animal rights, violence, mortality and protest. This is a volume that is deeply moving at times, unsettling at others, sometimes both – another landmark addition to Australian literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eHarsh Hakea\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOne of Australia’s most vivid, energetic and stormy poets, a writer who turns to the natural world with a fierce light\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e– Edward Hirsch, Washington Post\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eKinsella’s work conveys the damage done through capitalism, colonialism, patriarchy and their pervasive discourse. Yet it also illuminates how to see forms of connective beauty and resistant power between the human and more-than-human.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e– Ann Vickery, Angelaki\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe poem, then, as pantechnicon. The poet as polymath. To help rescue, to help halt the damage \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e–\u003c\/span\u003e to help undo the crime \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e– \u003c\/span\u003eone must know, one must inform oneself to inform\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eothers.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e– David Brooks, The Conversation, on volume one of the collected poems, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca title=\"The Ascension of Sheep\" href=\"https:\/\/uwap.uwa.edu.au\/products\/john-kinsella-the-ascension-of-sheep\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/uwap.uwa.edu.au\/products\/john-kinsella-the-ascension-of-sheep\"\u003eThe Ascension of Sheep\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eWorks of immense range, from extended lyrical meditations to taut experimental sonic poems and everything in between\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e– WritingWA, on volume one of the collected poems, \u003cem\u003e\u003ca title=\"The Ascension of Sheep\" href=\"https:\/\/uwap.uwa.edu.au\/products\/john-kinsella-the-ascension-of-sheep\"\u003eThe Ascension of Sheep\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe invitation of this sweeping collection provides the opportunity to consider the development of Kinsella’s writing from its raw earliest examples to the skilled technique evident in his current writing.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e– John Hawke, Australian Book Review\u003cem\u003e, \u003c\/em\u003eon volume two of the collected poems, \u003cem\u003eHarsh Hakea\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOne of the greatest senses one gets reading across the breadth of Kinsella is not plenitude but particularity, a granularity revealed through the turning over of the same materials and revealing how subtle shifts in the way they lie against one another alters the sense of the whole. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e– Caitlin Maling, Westerly, on volume two of the collected poems,\u003cem\u003e Harsh Hakea\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eBook details\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: February 2023\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrice: $55.00\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 978-1-76080-234-9\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat: 234 x 156 mm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eExtent: 830 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRights: Australia and New Zealand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"UWA Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42533337104584,"sku":"978-1-76080-234-9","price":55.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0542\/4573\/products\/KINSELLA__Vol2_FINAL.jpg?v=1674614063"},{"product_id":"spirals-john-kinsella","title":"Spirals, Collected Poems Volume Three (2014-2023)","description":"\u003ch3 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJohn Kinsella\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSpirals\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003cem\u003eSpirals\u003c\/em\u003e is not a case of a poet growing older, steadier, and more sedate but rather brings an ongoing sense of development that is also recursive and spatial. Politically, institutionally, and attitudinally, Kinsella remains an outsider.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eJohn Kinsella’s poetry is collected in one place for the very first time and includes poems that have appeared in chapbooks, publications outside of Australia, and some that are no longer in print. In this final volume, the spiralling effects of time combined with Kinsella’s probing and connections in space have brought his poetry an authority and a sense of being listened to not only with awe but with respect. And still, Kinsella renounces any inflated self. Instead of basting in a perversely satisfying white guilt, or retreating to a passive melancholy, Kinsella is active, dynamic, and even exuberant. His poetry is replete with astounding energy that is creative and forward-looking while remaining concerned about environmental damage, exploitations of neoliberalism and militarism, and the continuing illegitimacies of unacknowledged settler occupation. Kinsella’s final volume marks the culmination of his \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/uwap.uwa.edu.au\/collections\/john-kinsellas-collected-poems-1980-2023\" title=\"https:\/\/uwap.uwa.edu.au\/collections\/john-kinsellas-collected-poems-1980-2023\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e and cements itself as a landmark addition to Australian poetry.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePraise for \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/uwap.uwa.edu.au\/collections\/john-kinsellas-collected-poems-1980-2023\" title=\"https:\/\/uwap.uwa.edu.au\/collections\/john-kinsellas-collected-poems-1980-2023\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOne of Australia’s most vivid, energetic and stormy poets, a writer who turns to the natural world with a fierce light\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e– Edward Hirsch, Washington Post\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eKinsella’s work conveys the damage done through capitalism, colonialism, patriarchy and their pervasive discourse. Yet it also illuminates how to see forms of connective beauty and resistant power between the human and more-than-human.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e– Ann Vickery, Angelaki\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe poem, then, as pantechnicon. The poet as polymath. To help rescue, to help halt the damage \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e–\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eto help undo the crime\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e– \u003c\/span\u003eone must know, one must inform oneself to inform\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eothers.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e– David Brooks, The Conversation, on volume one of the collected poems, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/uwap.uwa.edu.au\/products\/john-kinsella-the-ascension-of-sheep\" title=\"The Ascension of Sheep\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Ascension of Sheep\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eWorks of immense range, from extended lyrical meditations to taut experimental sonic poems and everything in between\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e– WritingWA, on volume one of the collected poems, \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/uwap.uwa.edu.au\/products\/john-kinsella-the-ascension-of-sheep\" title=\"The Ascension of Sheep\"\u003eThe Ascension of Sheep\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe invitation of this sweeping collection provides the opportunity to consider the development of Kinsella’s writing from its raw earliest examples to the skilled technique evident in his current writing.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e– John Hawke, Australian Book Review\u003cem\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eon volume two of the collected poems,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHarsh Hakea\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOne of the greatest senses one gets reading across the breadth of Kinsella is not plenitude but particularity, a granularity revealed through the turning over of the same materials and revealing how subtle shifts in the way they lie against one another alters the sense of the whole. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e– Caitlin Maling, Westerly, on volume two of the collected poems,\u003cem\u003e Harsh Hakea\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs one might expect, the range of expression here is enormous, as is that of technical skill, of rhetorical acumen, of subject matter. Of the latter, at the forefront are the environment and, relatedly, justice and injustice in relation to ALL living things; language and meaning; and notions of the specific and the local versus the universal and the global. \u003c\/span\u003eIt is difficult to define a poet so protean, so prolific, so internationally well-regarded as Kinsella. However, the three volumes which comprise his Collected Poems, a veritable poetic triptych, certainly go some way. Essential.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e– Will Yeoman, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.writingwa.org\/for-readers\/book-reviews\/spirals-collected-poems-volume-three-2014-2023\/\" title=\"Spirals review by Will Yeoman, WritingWA\"\u003eWritingWA\u003c\/a\u003e, on volume three,\u003cem\u003e Spirals\u003c\/em\u003e, of the collected poems\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eBook details\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 1 March 2024\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrice: $55.00\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 978-1-76080-268-4\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat: 234 x 153 mm, 1kg\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eExtent: 926 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRights: Australia and New Zealand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCollection:\u003cem\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/uwap.uwa.edu.au\/collections\/john-kinsellas-collected-poems-1980-2023\" title=\"https:\/\/uwap.uwa.edu.au\/collections\/john-kinsellas-collected-poems-1980-2023\"\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"UWA Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43176944369864,"sku":"","price":55.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0542\/4573\/files\/KINSELLA_Vol3_cover.png?v=1706596471"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0542\/4573\/collections\/John_Kinsella_Collected_Poems.jpg?v=1717986954","url":"https:\/\/uwap.uwa.edu.au\/collections\/john-kinsellas-collected-poems-1980-2023\/new-release.oembed","provider":"UWA Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}