John Kinsella
Articles
- Salt Scars: John Kinsella’s Wheatbelt
Discusses John Kinsella's long-term poetic engagement with the fraught landscape of the West Australian Wheatbelt. 'Kinsella is an awkward manic wheatbelt laureate, filled with passionate…
1 June 2012 - Short Fiction Short Nation: The Ideologies of Australian Realism
This paper examines the ways in which short stories have interacted with different national contexts throughout the history of modern Australia, endorsing and resisting what…
2 November 2018 - Defining the Field of Irish-Australian Literature: Challenges and Conundrums
What constitutes Irish-Australian literature – if such a category exists – is by no means clear. This essay seeks to map the field and identify…
30 September 2021 - Recentring Water: Thinking with the Chain of Ponds
What might thinking with specific waters, and particular watery forms, bring to our understandings of how literature comes to mean? Taking cues from recent work…
25 May 2024