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John Kinsella John Kinsella i(A3690 works by) (a.k.a. John Vincent Kinsella)
Also writes as: John Heywood ; 'Ern Jr. Malley'
Born: Established: 1963 Perth, Western Australia, ;
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

John Kinsella is the founding editor of the international poetry magazine Salt. He is international editor of The Kenyon Review (USA). He is also a consultant editor to Westerly (CSAL, University of Western Australia) and the Cambridge correspondent for Overland (Melbourne, Australia).

Kinsella has been a fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge since 1998. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Edith Cowan University, Western Australia. In 2001, he was appointed Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College (Ohio, USA) for the spring semester; he later became Professor of English there. He is also Adjunct Professor to Edith Cowan University, Western Australia, where he is a Principal of the Landscape and Language Centre. In 2005, Kinsella proposed a School of Environmental Poetics and Creativity.

John Kinsella grew up in the city but also spent much of his youth, including three years of schooling, in country towns and on farms around Mullewa, Geraldton and in the south-west of Western Australia. Following studies at the University of Western Australia, he travelled internationally for a number of years. Kinsella is a vegan, a pacifist, an anti-nationalist and a supporter of animal rights. As a cultural commentator, he has made statements in support of Indigenous rights, including land rights, and gender respect.

Most Referenced Works

Notes

  • John Kinsella won an Australian Literature Board Grant for 1996, but forfeited it and took up his Young Artists Creative Fellowship instead.

Personal Awards

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Cellnight : A Verse Novel Yarraville : Transit Lounge , 2023 25672306 2023 single work novel

'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' witnesses police violence and threatens to tell what they have seen. An act of declaration becomes entangled with what is happening outside the cells. This haunting incantation looks back before and after these events, to the present day. The sea, the coast around Fremantle, the 'Scarp', all come into play in a work that attempts to decolonise the space, to contest nuclear, military and colonial power without claiming any rights over country.' (Publication summary)

2024 shortlisted Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Premier's Prize for Book of the Year Award

Known archival holdings

National Library of Australia (ACT)
University of Western Australia University of Western Australia Library (WA)
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