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ART by Charmaine Papertalk Green, John Kinsella
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
ART is the second collaborative poetry work from Charmaine Papertalk Green and John Kinsella. It is a formidable call and response piece that builds on the stunning dialogue the two authors began on paper in False Claims of Colonial Thieves (2018). While ART is a collaborative work, each poet’s contribu ...Show more
Armour by John Kinsella
$21.99 AUD
$24.99 (12% off)
Category: Poetry
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 -- d ...Show more
Beam of Light: Stories by John Kinsella
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Shifts in tone, setting and narration create a sense of the uncanny in Beam of Light, Kinsella's haunting collection of stories. Shifts in tone, setting and narration create a sense of the uncanny in Beam of Light, Kinsella's haunting collection of stories. A man is disturbed by the sight of a familiar ...Show more
Cellnight: A verse novel by John Kinsella
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 demonstrat ...Show more
Crow's Breath by John Kinsella
$25.95 AUD
$32.99 (21% off)
Category: Fiction
Winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry and Christopher Brennan Award (for lifetime achievement in poetry) and shortlisted in the Steele Rudd Prize for a collection of short fiction, John Kinsella returns with a not-to-be-missed addition to the canon of one of Australia's most original ...Show more
Displaced - A Rural Life by John Kinsella
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
John Kinsella's memoir of his rural life takes us deep into the heart of what it means to belong and unbelong. The joys and travails of childhood, adult addictions, missteps and changing directions are acutely captured in poignant and poetic detail. While centred on Jam Tree Gully in rural Western Austr ...Show more
False Claims of Colonial Thieves by Charmaine Papertalk Green, John Kinsella
$24.99 AUD
$29.99 (16% off)
Category: Poetry
From well-known poets Charmaine Papertalk Green and John Kinsella comes a tete-a-tete that is powerful, thought provoking, challenging and unapologetic. Papertalk Green and Kinsella call into question what we think we know about our country, colonisation, land and identity. Each poem is part of a striki ...Show more
Hollow Earth by John Kinsella
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Fascinated by caves and digging holes since childhood, Manfred discovers a path through to another realm via a Neolithic copper mine at Mount Gabriel in Schull, Ireland. The world of Hollow Earth, while no Utopia, is a sophisticated civilisation. Its genderless inhabitants are respectful of their enviro ...Show more
Old Growth by John Kinsella
$29.95 AUD
$34.99 (14% off)
Category: Fiction
In this luminous book of new stories, John Kinsella drops us seamlessly into the worlds of men, women and children at pivotal moments in their lives. In the title story, a husband who has lost his wife plans to destroy the old-growth bush she loved and escape to the city, with alarming consequences. Els ...Show more
On the Outskirts by John Kinsella
$24.95 AUD
$30.00 (16% off)
Category: Poetry
Inspired by the natural worlds surrounding T3bingen in Germany, Cambridge in England, the village of Schull in southwest Ireland and the West Australian wheatbelt, Kinsella explores through his poems the protection and valuing of human and animal life, and the environment itself. Reflecting on how the l ...Show more
Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry by John Kinsella (Editor)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
'A very fine anthology, with exemplary introductions. It is refreshing to see how much has been done so well.' - Peter Pierce Wide in scope and bold in ambition, this exciting anthology covers the range of Australian poetic achievement, from early colonial verse through to contemporary work, with a stro ...Show more
Pushing Back by John Kinsella
$29.99 AUD
Category: 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 o ...Show more