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Author: John Kinsella

  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Elegy for Peter Porter

    • John Kinsella
    • 05 June 2024

    An elegy doesn’t need to be written straight after a death... and maybe one’s own death catches up before the obituary we write is published. It might be something like re-arranging modernism into structurally sound lines, or discussing the context of metaphors in poems about London and friendship.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Apollo (Metamorphosis)

    • John Kinsella
    • 16 November 2023

    I don’t expect to find the leaves of a plant with your name formed by the veins. No god will have gifted you the future as a flower when flowers are losing their footholds. 

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Lightning Ghosts

    • John Kinsella
    • 25 September 2023
    1 Comment

    I sense them in the air when it’s said there’s little or no chance of a storm — they are apostrophes to themselves, shaped like diacriticals. This is a mundane observation to offer up when the flash closes the light out —that loss of speech to pyrography.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Furze fires cast a pall over the coast

    • John Kinsella
    • 22 April 2014

    You can see them cover the red sandstone range and spread over bogs from a vantage point high on Clear Island, furze fires that heat winter to spite itself. And leaving the island you catch an old man igniting a hedgerow, fire sucking light and throwing its carpet of smoke — no yellow flowers, just flame against itself.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Bush block rehab

    • John Kinsella
    • 14 July 2009
    1 Comment

    I planted that sapling in ash-soil, with acoustics of the lost tree resounding .. in the now wet and malleable earth, hidden rocks emerge easily and lay claim to surface.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Crossing the boundaries

    • John Kinsella
    • 18 May 2007

    Crossing the boundaries John Kinsella boards Sarah Day’s The Ship.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    John Kinsella

    • John Kinsella
    • 17 May 2007

    John Kinsella is an Australian poet, novelist, critic, publisher, and journal editor, based at Kenyon College, Ohio, in the USA. His website is at: www.johnkinsella.org

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Three icon poems

    • John Kinsella
    • 29 May 2006

    Occasionally, the mountain / glows at the summit / an event horizon, / its outcropping and granite folds

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Writing, Zhuhai and more

    • Tim Collins, Christopher Kelen, Geoff Baker, John Kinsella, B.W. Shearer
    • 11 May 2006

    Poems by Tim Collins; Christopher Kelen ; Geoff Baker, John Kinsella; B.W. Shearer

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Johnny Winter Love Poem

    • John Kinsella
    • 11 May 2006

    Poem by John Kinsella

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    Voyelles

    • John Kinsella
    • 25 April 2006

    John Kinsella translates Arthur Rimbaud’s Voyelles

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