Salt is Part of the Environment single work   poetry   "Slightly lower than the coast"
  • Author:agent John Kinsella http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/kinsella-john
Issue Details: First known date: 2005... 2005 Salt is Part of the Environment
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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The New Arcadia John Kinsella , Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2005 Z1206061 2005 selected work poetry

    '"Astonishingly fecund and inventive. The New Arcadia revitalizes pastoral traditions, but more in the mode of lamentation than celebration. Like Frost's New Hampshire and Vermont, Kinsella's Western Australia is eroded, a last act salted with the ruins of our age, and yet yielding permanent poems."-Harold Bloom' (Publication summary)

         Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2005     pg. 171-172
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Sacre Coeur - A Salt Tragedy: John Kinsella John Kinsella , Australia : Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 2009 Z1567080 2009 selected work poetry

    'In Sacre Coeur: A Salt Tragedy Kinsella writes with great feeling about the Western Australian wheatlands in a kind of anti-pastoral poetry populated with people he has encountered, and the landscape he loves. He writes with urgency and alarm but also hope.

    'For this production, Christopher Williams journeyed to historic York in Western Australia to accompany John Kinsella into the salt-scarred wheatlands. John has been observing and writing about this landscape over the past 40 years and has seen first-hand the devastating environmental consequences of large-scale tree felling, and the damming of waterways such as at Lake Yenyening. John describes the way the landscape has informed his writing and reads selections of his poems inspired by particular places. He also shares his thoughts on how this environmental catastrophe might be addressed.'

    Source: A Pod of Poets, http://www.abc.net.au/rn/poetica/features/pod/poets/kinsella.htm
    Sighted: 11/03/2009

         Australia : Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 2009
Subjects:
  • York area, York - Brookton - Quairading area, Northam - Southern Cross area, Southwest Western Australia, Western Australia,
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