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Hierarchy of Sheep, The
by John Kinsella
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- About the Book
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‘John Kinsella delights in disturbance. He writes a brilliant new Australian pastoral of superphosphates, firebreaks, emu hunts, wheat weighing, rearing tractors and paddy melons. His poems grab the traditions of the pastoral with both hands and twist them to fit a landscape where a dog is ripped open by a cornered roo, a lorry jack-knifes with its load of sheep and wells ‘go salt’ … Kinsella writes like an Australian storm at full blow.’ — Helen Dunmore, Observer, United Kingdom
John Kinsella has dusted down the pastoral and made it a vibrant, contemporary form. Kinsella investigates the landscapes of the Australian wheatbelt and the English fens, sometimes in isolation, at other times fusing them together. His ways of seeing landscape are politically aware, against colonisation and appropriation, but always open to the possibilities of hybrid change and growth.
- Category
- Poetry
- Publication Year
- 2001
- Publisher
- Fremantle Press
- ISBN11
- 1 86368 315 1
- ISBN13
- 9 781863 683159
- HB/PB
- Paperback
- Format
- B+ Format (205 x 138mm)
- Pages
- 86
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