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  • Pushing Back

    by John Kinsella ...
    *Shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2022: Christina Stead Prize for Fiction*'The tall trees nearby called them up and red-tailed black cockatoos carried messages to them that they told no one else about.'Pushing Back is John Kinsella's most haunting and timely fiction to date. It is populated with eccentric, compelling characters, drifters, unlikely friendships, the silences of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Cellnight

    A verse novel

    by John Kinsella ...
    A unique experience. A novel in ‘spindle’ sonnets. A drama. An impassioned cry for a beautiful and stolen world under threat. A ‘protester’ who has been living in a shallow cave in the limestone cliff in front of Bathers Beach under the colonial Round House prison in Fremantle is arrested for demonstrating against the late 80’s visit of the nuclear-armed 7th Fleet. In the cells the ‘protester’ ... Read more

    $14.49 CAD

  • The Fountain of Youth

    by John Kinsella ...
    Strange things are happening in a small Australian town as the local theatre troupe prepares for their next performance. The Fountain of Youth is another riotous and rollicking novel from John Kinsella, and the third volume of his ongoing ‘Lucida’ cycle.In the small wheat-belt towns of Western Australia, the locals are either benign or malicious, prophets or schemers, indifferent or intrusive. ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Mahler Erasures

    by John Kinsella ...
    Series series Australian Literature
    Once a fêted literary figure, the former lover of B-list movie star Lucida, but now derelict, incontinent, asexual, ageing poet Harold Lime turns his back on material modernity, withdrawing to a basement in the university town of Cambridge, England. But human connections will prove difficult to sever completely, and he is drawn out of himself by a fox hunt saboteur (“the sab woman”), with whom he ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Wound

    by John Kinsella ...
    Series series Arc International Poets Series
    The Wound is the latest collection from esteemed Australian poet John Kinsella, whose previous accolades include the Grace Leven Poetry Prize, the John Bray Award for Poetry, the Age Poetry Book of the Year Award, and three-times winner of the Western Australian Premier's Book Award for Poetry. Kinsella describes himself as a 'vegan anarchist pacifist', and The Wound was inspired by his anger ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cargo Club

    by John Francis Kinsella ...
    Pat Kennedy fell into a restless sleep as images of Magellan's voyage drifted in and out of his dreams. His 60 million dollar Falcon jet was a galaxy of light years away from the navigator's carrick, the Vittoria, the first ship to complete the circumnavigation of the globe. The 85 ton vessel, a mere 20 metres long compared to the 25 metres of the Falcon, with its three decks and stern castle rose ... Read more

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  • Temporariness

    On the Imperatives of Place

    by John Kinsella, Russell West-Pavlov ...
    Series Book 2 - Herausforderungen für die Geisteswissenschaften - Challenges for the Humanities
    Temporariness is a scandal in our culture of monumentalism and its persistent search for permanence. Temporariness, the time of the ephemeral and the performative, the time of speech, the time of nature and its constant changesthese times have little cultural purchase. In this volume two practitioners and theoreticians of time, space and the word embrace the notion of temporarinessseeing in it a ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Prism 2049

    by John Francis Kinsella ...
    It is the year 2049. John Ennis, a writer and political analyst, finds himself in Medina Hurriya, capital city of Algharb. His goal is a new media series for Global Focus Report, but he quickly finds himself dangerously ensnarled in a struggle against Algharb's oppressive regime.The story has its roots in the early part of the twenty first century. During that period Europe and more particularly ... Read more

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  • Michael Dransfield

    A retrospective

    by Michael Dransfield, John Kinsella ...
    Series Book 146 - Untapped
    ‘Michael Dransfield is now recognised as one of the most influential Australian poets,’ writes John Kinsella in the introduction to this wide-ranging collection that showcases Dransfield’s distinctive style: ‘often simultaneously streetwise and sophisticated, and intentionally “naive”‘ but ‘always innovative, often unique’. The poetry of Michael Dransfield (1948–1973) has appeared in literary ... Read more

    $11.80 CAD

  • The Darkest Pastoral

    Selected Poems

    by John Kinsella ...
    One of Australia’s most treasured poets draws on the past to reckon with the perils of the present.Illuminated by the spirit of ecological activism and decolonization, The Darkest Pastoral engages deeply with nature, climate catastrophe, and grief, and the interconnectedness between humans and the natural world. John Kinsella’s poetry stretches and often breaks the lyric in an attempt to create ... Read more

    $30.39 CAD

  • Borneo Pulp

    by John Francis Kinsella ...
    At the end of the twentieth century the destruction of the Indonesian rainforest accelerated as vast industrial forestry complexes were planned in the untouched heart of Borneo. The promoters of one of these, backed by international banks, vied for a share in the rich rewards, heedless of the destruction to be wreaked on the habitat of the indigenous peoples and the natural environment. ... Read more

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  • Divine Comedy

    Journeys Through a Regional Geography: Three New Works

    by John Kinsella ...
    “One of the most original and poignantly authentic poets writing in English.”—Harold BloomA three-part, epic work challenging our notions about the environment by Australia’s preeminent poet of the natural world. Consisting of Purgatorio: Up Close, Paradiso: Rupture, and Inferno: Leisure Centre, John Kinsella's "distractions" on Dante's Divine Comedy journey through time and space. Set in a wheat ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD