Here, the great Australian poet John Kinsella has written his most spiritual work to date - and his most politically engaged. The world in which these poems unfold is strangely poised between the material and the immaterial, and everything which enters it does so illuminated by its own vivid presence.A Poetry Society choice.
Here, the great Australian poet John Kinsella has written his most spiritual work to date - and his most politically engaged. The world in which these...
from We Spend Days in This House" We spend days in this house but not nights. We have seen the early morning sunligh infiltrate the eucalypts, sunset deflecte by acacias. We have sweltered at midday We have walked every acre intimately The kangaroos recognise us and linger We spend days in this house but not nights
from We Spend Days in This House" We spend days in this house but not nights. We have seen the early morning sunligh infiltrate the eucal...
Polysituatedness is concerned with the complexities of defining place, of observing and seeing place, and how we might write a poetics of place. It argues for a 'polysituatedness' of presence, in which all places we have been part of (lived in, visited, stayed in, inherited, even imagined) become enmeshed with a sense of belonging (or not) and posits an alternative model for participation in community and landscape. It does this in the context of a world-view of 'international regionalism', in which international lines of communication are seen to enhance regionality.
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Polysituatedness is concerned with the complexities of defining place, of observing and seeing place, and how we might write a poetics of ...
John Kinsella's poetic and intertextual reworking of John Milton's dramatic poem, Samson Agonistes, confirms Milton as one of the many influences in Kinsella's poetic output. His fascination with Milton's "tale of conflicted belief, values and desires" is stated at the outset in the `Argument', and in what follows, Kinsella echoes many of Milton's themes as he explores how the cyborg Samson - both a symbol of uncontrolled violence and a pacifist peacemaker - must come to terms with his participation in his own powerlessness and incarceration. Stephen Chinna's introduction and Tim Cribb's...
John Kinsella's poetic and intertextual reworking of John Milton's dramatic poem, Samson Agonistes, confirms Milton as one of the many influences in K...
