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John Kinsella Bundle (3 Books)
Combines Kinsella's most recent release Consolations: After Boethius (2026) with two major works Supervivid Depastoralism (2021) and The Argonautica Inlandica (2023).
'Supervivid Depastoralism reveals a multifaceted and restless mind at work, ranging through nightscapes, landscapes, and the cratered zones that colonisation leaves in its wake. The infinity of sheep grazing on a hillside, the misrecognised call of the boobook owl, the rock dragon, the yellow-plumed honeyeater: all demand new and self-reflexive poetic interaction. Kinsella pursues this through syntactical brilliance and deft imagery, allowing his richly observational mode to wholly refigure previously ‘settled’ relationships and subjectivities.'
NSW Premier's Literary Awards
‘In searching for the Golden Fleece, the Argonauts experienced harrowing trips through the uncharted rivers of central Europe and the desert wastes of North Africa. Now, in his brilliantly conceived and dazzlingly erudite ecological epic, John Kinsella turns Apollonius of Rhodes’s great water journey inland and inside-out, revealing how in Australia “the quest for metals to service the greenwash / of energy, the lap against the balance of power hull, / is the death of a forest and its inhabitants. And that’s real /-politic, sports funding, local investment, and PR.” Indeed, “The clash—rigor/ mortis of empire craving, and the media’s / feeding frenzy” leave both poet and reader to witness “insect and reptile sheltering places / removed, echidna hollows disturbed,/ ground exposed raw as some properties /surrounding the enclave, hemming / it in. And the phantom travellers, / antithetical Argonauts, look on with despair . . .”
What can even Medea do for Jason in such circumstances? Kinsella’s is a unique, an unforgettable story.’
What can even Medea do for Jason in such circumstances? Kinsella’s is a unique, an unforgettable story.’
MARJORIE PERLOFF
John Kinsella is the author of over seventy books of poetry, fiction, criticism, plays, edited works (such as The Penguin Book of Australian Poetry), and collaborative works. His many awards include the Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry, the Victorian Premier’s Award for Poetry, the John Bray Award for Poetry, the Judith Wright Calanthe Award for Poetry (twice) and the Western Australian Premier’s Award for Poetry (three times). He has published Supervivid Depastoralism (2021) and The Argonautica Inlandica (2023) with Vagabond Press. John Kinsella is an extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, and Emeritus Professor of Literature and Environment at Curtin University. A frequent collaborator with other poets, writers, artist, musicians, and thinkers, he lives on Ballardong Noongar land at ‘Jam Tree Gully’ in the Western Australian wheatbelt. In 2007 he received the Christopher Brennan Award for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry. He was inducted into the Western Australian Writing Hall of Fame in 2024.