Sack
In John Kinsella's new collection, 'Sack' refers not only to the shocking title poem, where a tied, writhing sack is seen flung from a car into a gully - but also to the sacking and exploitation of the landscape and those who labour on it. Kinsella draws vividly on 'childhood memories', but reveals them for the hard truths they are, by subtracting the cushioning effects of nostalgia. Kinsella shows how childhood prefigures our adult experience, and how its residues (here, those also take the literal form of asbestos and radiation) influence and shape our futures. Elsewhere, Kinsella resurrects an old form to do new work: the 'penillion' is an…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4472-5943-5
- EAN: 9781447259435
- Produktnummer: 16651622
- Verlag: Pan Macmillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 128 S.
- Masse: H20.0 cm x B16.3 cm x D1.3 cm 198 g
- Gewicht: 198
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
John Kinsella is the author of over thirty books. He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University. In 2007 he received the Fellowship of Australian Writers Christopher Brennan Award for lifetime achievement in poetry. He received the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry in 2013
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