John Kinsella

Photo by Wendy Kinsella

From wheat-belt Western Australia, John Kinsella has written more than forty collections of poetry and also fiction, plays, and nonfiction. Kinsella is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, and professor of literature and environment at Curtin University, Western Australia. Picador published his selected poems, Drowning in Wheat, in 2016.

Brimstone: A Book of Villanelles by John Kinsella

Spring 2021
John Kinsella

Todmorden. Arc. 2020. 77 pages. THE VILLANELLE OCCUPIES an unstable canonical history. Jean Passerat’s “J’ay perdu ma Tourterelle” (written in 1574, published in 1606) is the only exa...
Transmigratory Prayers

September 21, 2020 | Kwame Dawes, John Kinsella

Sheep’s Head Lighthouse / Photo by John Finn / Flickr Author’s note: For about seven years now, Kwame Dawes and I have been writing long poem-dialogues that have so far appeared as fo...
Thinking over Helen Johnson’s Already Much Thought over “‘A Solipsistic Colonial Fantasy’ . . . Impotent Observer” and Unhitching Myself from Kant’s First Moment

Winter 2019
John Kinsella

Photo: Casliber/Wikimedia Commons We have been away from Jam Tree Gully – now, reapproaching the name not on the gate. Working the categories, the signs, we fear the raiders? Fifteen minutes int...
False Claims of Colonial Thieves by Charmaine Papertalk Green & John Kinsella

September 2018
Charmaine Papertalk Green, John Kinsella

Broome, Australia. Magabala Books. 2018. 149 pages. If poets are compelled toward cultivating voice, then, logically enough, to what ends? In his recent monograph, Polysituatedness: A Poetics of D...
Three Poems from Australia

May 24, 2017 | John Kinsella

Geoff Whalan, “Mistletoe Bird (Diaceum hirundinaceum),” Fogg Dam Conservation Reserve, Middle Point, Northern Territory, Australia, November 8, 2015 Graphology Endgame 55: Adjustment We ha...