The Hunt, The by John Kinsella
John Kinsella portrays the lives and landscapes of modern rural Australia in emotionally charged poems which reinvent the possibilities of language. He has dusted down the pastoral, and made it a vibrant, contemporary form. Poetry Book Society Recommendation. 'Astonishing fecundity and splendour. John Kinsella is a prodigy - a kind of fountain of Parnassus all in himself. His range, his cognitive music, his variety are unique in a poet of his age in the English-speaking world today...There are only a handful (or fewer) English language poets of his generation whose work is already so original, so fully formed, and so clearly destined to become part of the central tradition' - Harold Bloom
John Kinsella delights in disturbanceHe 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 *
Born in Perth, Australia, in 1963, John Kinsella has written over 30 books of poetry, including four from Bloodaxe: Poems 1980-1994 (1998), The Hunt (1998), Visitants (1999) and The Hierarchy of Sheep (2000). He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, and was previously a professor of English at Kenyon College in the US.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781852244415 |
| ISBN 10 | 1852244410 |
| Title | The Hunt, The |
| Author | John Kinsella |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1998-03-26 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
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