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Credit for photograph: “photo of jk by tracy
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John Kinsella has written over 20 books of poetry, as
well as plays and fiction; he also maintains an active literary career as a
teacher and editor. Kinsella’s poetry is both experimental and pastoral,
featuring the landscape of Western Australia. Paul Kane observed in World
Literature Today, “In Kinsella’s poetry these are lands marked by isolation
and mundane violence and by a terrible transcendent beauty.” Kinsella’s recent
books of poetry include Firebreaks (2016), Drowning in
Wheat: Selected Poems (2016), and Insomnia (2019). In
his “Alternative Biography,” Kinsella describes himself as “a supporter of
worldwide indigenous rights, and an absolute supporter of land rights.” He has
been a “vegan anarchist pacifist” for 37 years.