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Informationen zum Autor John Kinsella is the author of many books of poetry, fiction and criticism. He has also written for the stage. He is a frequent collaborator with other poets, critics, fictionalists, artists, musicians, labourers, activists and friends. Recent fiction includes the novels 'Lucida Intervalla' (UWAP, 2018) and Hollow Earth (Transit Lounge, 2019) and the collections of short fiction 'Old Growth' (Transit Lounge, 2017) and 'Pushing Back' (Transit Lounge, 2021); recent poetry includes 'Drowning in Wheat: Selected Poems' (Picador, 2016), 'Open Door' (UWAP, 2018), 'Insomnia' (WW Norton, 2020) and 'Supervivid Depastoralism' (Vagabond, 2021); recent criticism includes 'Polysituatedness' (Manchester University Press, 2017), 'Temporariness' (with Russell West-Pavlov; Narr, 2019) and 'Beyond Ambiguity: tracing literary sites of activism' (Manchester University Press, 2021). Five Islands Press has just published his collection of 'Graphology drawing-poems, Saussure's Kaleidoscope' (2021).John Kinsella is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, and Emeritus Professor of Literature and Sustainability at Curtin University. But most relevantly, he is an anarchist-vegan-pacifist. Kinsella's activism against racism and bigotry began in his late teens when he was working on the first manifestation of his experimental novel, 'Morpheus'. He is a committed environmentalist. Klappentext John Kinsella explores a contemporary poetics and pedagogy as it emerges from his reflections on his own writing and teaching, and on the work of other poets, particularly contemporary writers with which he feels some affinity. Zusammenfassung John Kinsella explores a contemporary poetics and pedagogy as it emerges from his reflections on his own writing and teaching! and on the work of other poets! particularly contemporary writers with which he feels some affinity. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Pastoral, landscape, place...2. Spatial lyricism3. Manifestoes4. Aging, loss, recidivism...List of referencesIndex...
