With Armour, the great Australian poet John Kinsella has written
his most spiritual work to date - and his most politically engaged.
The world in which these poems unfold is strangely poised between
the material and the immaterial, and everything which enters it -
kestrel and fox, moth and almond - does so illuminated by its own
vivid presence: the impression is less a poet honouring his
subjects than uncannily inhabiting them. Elsewhere we find a poetry
of lyric protest, as Kinsella scrutinizes the equivocal place of
the human within this natural landscape, both as tenant and
self-appointed steward. Armour is a beautifully various work, one
of sharp ecological and social critique - but also one of
meticulous invocation and quiet astonishment, whose atmosphere will
haunt the reader long after they close the book. Praise for John
Kinsella: 'Kinsella's poems are a very rare feat: they are
narratives of feeling. Vivid sight - of landscapes, of animals, of
human forms in distant light - becomes insight. There is, often,
the shock of the new. But somehow awaited, even familiar. Which is
the homecoming of a true poet' George Steiner
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