Flights of Imagination extract   criticism  
Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 Flights of Imagination
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'This is an edited extract of Professor Tony Hughes-d’Aeth ’s introduction to The Ascension of Sheep, first in a new, three-volume collection of John Kinsella’s luminous poetry It is not easy to still John Kinsella. He is a poet defined by constant motion, by compulsive kinesis. Kinsella, who writes so often of birds, is a poet who is really only understood in flight. Opening The Collected Poems of John Kinsella: The Ascension of Sheep (1983-2005) (UWA Publishing), the very earliest poem is about a cormorant, the next talks of a cockatoo; in fact, there are at least 123 bird species mentioned in this book.'

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    y separately published work icon The Weekend Australian 19 February 2022 23927640 2022 newspaper issue 2022 pg. 18 Section: Review
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