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John Kinsella
John Kinsella’s many volumes of poetry include the prize winning collections Peripheral Light: New and Selected Poems and The New Arcadia. His collection of lectures on landscape and language, Contrary Rhetoric, has just been published by Fremantle Press in conjunction with Edith Cowan University. He is an Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, and a Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia.
Awards
Winner, Adelaide Writers’ Week Poetry Prize, 1996
Winner, The Age Poetry Book of the Year, 1998
Winner, Western Australian Premier’s Book Award, 1999
Winner, Christopher Brennan Award for Poetry, 2007
Winner, Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award for Poetry, 2006
Books available from Fremantle Press
- The Land's Meaning 2012
- The Ballad of Moondyne Joe 2012
- Sand 2010
- Shades of the Sublime & Beautiful 2008
- Contrary Rhetoric 2008
- School Days 2006
- Peripheral Light: Selected and New Poems 2003
- Rivers 2002
- Speed Factory 2002
- Hierarchy of Sheep, The 2001
- Wheatlands 2000
- Landbridge 1999, 2001
- Grappling Eros 1998
- Hunt, The 1998
- Kangaroo Virus 1998
- Genre 1997
- Lightning Tree 1996
- Erratum/Frame(d) 1995
Website
From the Catalogue
House of Fiction @ Sydney Writers Festival
Who knew that Elizabeth Jolley’s life contained even more mystery and dark secrets than her fiction? Her stepdaughter Susan Swingler reconstructs the harrowing tale of a forbidden love affair and an abandoned child. She talks to Caroline Baum at the Sydney Writers Festival

