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Spatial Relations. Volume Two - Essays, Reviews, Commentaries, and Chorography (Hardcover)
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Spatial Relations. Volume Two - Essays, Reviews, Commentaries, and Chorography (Hardcover)
Series: Cross/Cultures, 162
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These volumes present John Kinsella's uncollected critical writings
and personal reflections from the early 1990s to the present.
Included are extended pieces of memoir written in the Western
Australian wheatbelt and the Cambridge fens, as well as acute
essays and commentaries on the nature and genesis of personal and
public poetics. Pivotal are a sense of place and how we write out
of it; pastoral's relevance to contemporary poetry; how we evaluate
and critique (post)colonial creativity and intrusion into
Indigenous spaces; and engaged analysis of activism and
responsibility in poetry and literary discourse. The author is
well-known for saying he is preeminently an "anarchist, vegan,
pacifist" - not stock epithets, but the raison d'etre behind his
work. The collection moves from overviews of contemporary
Australian poetry to studies of such writers as Randolph Stow,
Ouyang Yu, Charmaine Papertalk-Green, Lionel Fogarty, Les Murray,
Peter Porter, Dorothy Hewett, Judith Wright, Alamgir Hashmi,
Patrick Lane, Robert Sullivan, C.K. Stead, and J.H. Prynne, and on
to numerous book reviews of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction,
originally published in newspapers and journals from around the
world. There are also searching reflections on visual artists
(Sidney Nolan, Karl Wiebke, Shaun Atkinson) and wide-ranging
opinion pieces and editorials. In counterpoint are conversations
with other writers (Rosanna Warren, Rod Mengham, Alvin Pang, and
Tracy Ryan) and explorations of schooling, being struck by
lightning, 'international regionalism', hybridity, and experimental
poetry. This two-volume argosy has been brought together by scholar
and editor Gordon Collier, who has allowed the original versions to
speak with their unique informal-formal ductus. Kinsella's interest
is in the ethics of space and how we use it. His considerations of
the wheatbelt through Wagner and Dante (and rewritings of these),
and, in Thoreauvian vein, his 'place' at Jam Tree Gully on the edge
of Western Australia's Avon Valley form a web of affirmation and
anxiety: it is space he feels both part of and outside, em-braced
in its every magnitude but felt to be stolen land, whose
restitution needs articulating in literature and in real time.
Beneath it all is a celebration of the natural world - every plant,
animal, rock, sentinel peak, and grain of sand - and a commitment
to an ecological poetics.
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