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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

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From the Catalogue

Outdoor Reading in Freo

The National Year of Reading is about turning Australia into a nation of readers. Fremantle City Library invites you the launch of the National Year of Reading 2012 at their Outdoor Reading Room.

Indulge your love of reading this Valentine’s Day with a morning tea and talks by Susanna Juliano author of Fremantle Italians and Andrew Relph, author of Not Drowning, Reading

When: 10am, 14 February 2012
Where: Outdoor Reading Room, Kings Square, Fremantle
RSVP by 7 Feb: 08 9432 9766 or frelib@fremantle.wa.gov.au