John Kinsella and two of his children, April 2005. Photo by Tracy Ryan
John Kinsella Contents page
John Kinsella (b.1963) was born in Western Australia in 1963. In 1996 he received a Young Australian Creative Fellowship, and was awarded a two-year Fellowship from the Literature Fund of the Australia Council. He is the founding editor of the literary magazine and publishing house Salt Publications and an editor of The Kenyon Review. His most recent volumes of poetry are Peripheral Light: New and Selected Poems (WW Norton and Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2003), and Doppler Effect: Collected Experimental Poems (Salt, 2004). His The New Arcadia poetry volume is due out in June 2005 (WW Norton and Fremantle Arts Centre Press). He is Professor of English at Kenyon College, Ohio, and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University. He is the editor of Michael Dransfield — A Retrospective, published by UQP in 2002.
Material available on this site:
A selection of (twenty-two) poems:
Graphology 108 / Graphology 111 / Graphology 112 / Graphology 114 / Graphology 115: Hobbies? / Graphology 116: Pre- Composition / Living Conditions. Cambridge / Cambridge Morning Meditation / The leaden light / moral poetry in cambridge... / On the Rejection of the Term “Property” for This Place (2001) / Amnesia (2001) / Fog and Linnets (2001) / Visiting Wittgenstein’s Grave in Winter, 1999 / And Everyone Gathered In Objection Yet Again (1999) / The Dam Busters (1998) / Honest, Theocritus! (1997) / Five Ern Malley poems (1992) with an Introduction: Aural Palette Yelp / cloven / Dark Eclipse / Careerism gone mad verging on hubris / loy polloi love song
Cambridge Notes (1996)
This piece is about five printed pages long. It was written in 1996 when John Kinsella was first resident in Cambridge, England.
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