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John Kinsella

John Kinsella's most recent volumes of poetry include FirebreaksDrowning in Wheat: Selected Poems 1980-2015, and a three-volume edition of his Graphology Poems 1995–2015. His volumes of stories include In the Shade of the Shady TreeCrow's Breath and Old Growth. His volumes of criticism include Activist Poetics: Anarchy in the Avon Valley and the recently released Polysituatedness. He is Professor of Literature and Environment at Curtin University and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University. With Tracy Ryan he is the co-editor of The Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry, published earlier this year. 

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Poetry
But the barefoot kids of the Wagenburg know
the trees must all stand to make the light and shade
work the way it does, their palisades against regulation.
John Kinsella
Poetry
What we say is where we say.
What we say is how we say,
What we say is why we say.
What is said fluctuates. . . .
Kwame Dawes, John Kinsella
Poetry
John Kinsella
John Kinsella
John Kinsella

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