John Kinsella is the author of more than thirty books. He has also
edited and/or introduced dozens of poetry volumes by other poets. His
many prizes and awards for his own work include The Grace Leven Poetry
Prize, the John Bray Award for Poetry from the Adelaide Festival, The
Age Poetry Book of the Year Award, The Western Australian Premier's Book
Award for Poetry (three times), a Young Australian Creative Fellowship
from the former PM of Australia, Paul Keating, and senior Fellowships from
the Literature Board of the Australia Council. His Poems 1980-1994 and
volume of poetry The Hunt (a Poetry Book Society Recommendation)
were published in May 1998 by Bloodaxe, UK. His other books include The
Silo (Fremantle Arts Centre Press/Arc, UK, 1995/1998), The Undertow:
New
& Selected Poems (Arc, UK, 1996), Visitants (Bloodaxe,
1999), Wheatlands (with Dorothy Hewett in 2000), and The Hierarchy
of Sheep (Bloodaxe/FACP, 2001). A novel, Genre, was published
in 1997 (FACP) and Grappling Eros (stories) in late 1998 (FACP).
A book of autobiographical writing, Auto, was published in 2001
(Salt). He was commissioned to create a textual adaptation of Wagner's
Götterdämmerung for the 2003 Perth Festival, and is the
author of four verse plays (collected as Divinations).
John Kinsella is founding editor for the international literary
publisher Salt, a Consultant Editor to Westerly (CSAL, University of
Western Australia), Cambridge correspondent for Overland (Melbourne,
Australia), and International Editor of the American journal The Kenyon
Review. He co-edited a double issue of Australian poetry for the American
journal Poetry with Joseph Parisi, a special pastoral issue of TriQuarterly
with Susan Stewart, and numerous other special issues of international
literary journals.
John Kinsella is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University,
and was appointed the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing
at Kenyon College in the United States for 2001, where he was Professor
of English until 2005. Professor Kinsella is at present a Research Fellow
at the University of Western Australia, and also Adjunct Professor to Edith
Cowan University, Western Australia, where he was a founding Principal
of the Landscape and Language Centre. His work has been or is being translated
into many languages, including French, German, Chinese, Dutch, Spanish,
and Russian. His volume Peripheral Light: New and Selected Poems
(selected and introduced by Harold Bloom), was published in 2003 by WW
Norton in the USA and UK, and by FACP in Australia. Peripheral Light
was shortlisted for the ALS Gold Medal and won the 2004 Western Australian
Premier's Book Award for Poetry; it was also a Washington Post recommended
poetry book.
John Kinsella was senior poetry critic for the Observer newspaper
(UK), and now reviews for Scotland on Sunday. A novel, Post-colonial,
a critical volume (Spatial Relations, Manchester University Press, late
2006), a volume of lectures, and a book of short stories (Conspiracies,
with Tracy Ryan) are forthcoming or recently published. WW Norton and FACP
published his volume of poetry The New Arcadia in July 2005, while
Arc (UK) has just released the poem-book, America. Melbourne University
Press will publish his Fast, Loose Beginnings memoir in August 2006.
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