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  • Author:agent John Kinsella http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/kinsella-john
Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 Open Door
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'The final book in the Jam Tree Gully trilogy, Open Door continues Kinsella’s investigation into environmental responsibility and the complexity of our connection to the land of rural Australia.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Notes

  • Dedication: To Tracy and Tim an the world's refugees and homeless.


    The author wishes to acknowledge the Ballardong Noongar people, the traditional owners and custodians of the land he writes. 

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Nedlands, Inner Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: UWA Publishing , 2018 .
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      Extent: 256p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published October 2018.

      ISBN: 9781742589954
      Series: y separately published work icon UWAP Poetry Club Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2016- 10166627 2016 series - publisher poetry

Works about this Work

Review of ‘Open Door’ by John Kinsella Colin Young , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Editor's Desk - 2022 2023;

— Review of Open Door John Kinsella , 2018 selected work poetry
Thom Sullivan Reviews Open Door by John Kinsella Thom Sullivan , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , September 2020;

— Review of Open Door John Kinsella , 2018 selected work poetry
Precise, Protean as Ever Gregory Day , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 8 February 2020; (p. 25)

— Review of Open Door John Kinsella , 2018 selected work poetry

'That poet John Kinsella is abrasive as a ­xanthorrhoea, electrically sensitive as a platypus bill and self-reflexively across all issues of the anthropocene is by now well integrated into his writing identity. With Open Door, the third of his Jam Tree Gully cycle, we find him returning to his family’s rural block on Ballardong Noongar land in Western Australia’s vast wheatbelt. In the place he loves and hates the most Kinsella immediately finds “a Dry as ­combustible as morality”, forcing him to fit his theme of homecoming and return through a penitential lens of empathy and rage, as he ­observes the ongoing effects of agricultural cauterisation of the landscape and the suffering of creatures in his midst. This is the poet as ­activist-crusader and student of animals, once again exhibiting his membership of a species increasingly tortured by its own culpability. As such, Open Door is ironically caged, not only by the obviousness of climate change, the bleeding obvious, but by how to write about it in the face of what amounts to a culturally arthritic denial.' (Publication summary)

Broken and Open, Cycling and Re-cycling : Poetry of the Australian Rural Landscape Now Amelia Walker , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , April vol. 23 no. 1 2019;

— Review of Open Door John Kinsella , 2018 selected work poetry ; Broken Ground Steve Armstrong , 2018 selected work poetry ; Rondo Chris Wallace-Crabbe , 2018 selected work poetry
Broken and Open, Cycling and Re-cycling : Poetry of the Australian Rural Landscape Now Amelia Walker , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , April vol. 23 no. 1 2019;

— Review of Open Door John Kinsella , 2018 selected work poetry ; Broken Ground Steve Armstrong , 2018 selected work poetry ; Rondo Chris Wallace-Crabbe , 2018 selected work poetry
Precise, Protean as Ever Gregory Day , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 8 February 2020; (p. 25)

— Review of Open Door John Kinsella , 2018 selected work poetry

'That poet John Kinsella is abrasive as a ­xanthorrhoea, electrically sensitive as a platypus bill and self-reflexively across all issues of the anthropocene is by now well integrated into his writing identity. With Open Door, the third of his Jam Tree Gully cycle, we find him returning to his family’s rural block on Ballardong Noongar land in Western Australia’s vast wheatbelt. In the place he loves and hates the most Kinsella immediately finds “a Dry as ­combustible as morality”, forcing him to fit his theme of homecoming and return through a penitential lens of empathy and rage, as he ­observes the ongoing effects of agricultural cauterisation of the landscape and the suffering of creatures in his midst. This is the poet as ­activist-crusader and student of animals, once again exhibiting his membership of a species increasingly tortured by its own culpability. As such, Open Door is ironically caged, not only by the obviousness of climate change, the bleeding obvious, but by how to write about it in the face of what amounts to a culturally arthritic denial.' (Publication summary)

Thom Sullivan Reviews Open Door by John Kinsella Thom Sullivan , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , September 2020;

— Review of Open Door John Kinsella , 2018 selected work poetry
Review of ‘Open Door’ by John Kinsella Colin Young , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Editor's Desk - 2022 2023;

— Review of Open Door John Kinsella , 2018 selected work poetry
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