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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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