Armour
With Armour, the great Australian poet John Kinsella has written his most spiritual work to date — and his most politically engaged. The world in which these poems unfold is strangely poised between the material and the immaterial, and everything which enters it — kestrel and fox, moth and almond — does so illuminated by its own vivid presence: the impression is less a poet honouring his subjects than uncannily inhabiting them. Elsewhere we find a poetry of lyric protest, as Kinsella scrutinizes the equivocal place of the human within this natural landscape, both as tenant and self-appointed steward. Armour is a beautifully various work, one of sharp ecological and social critique — but also one of meticulous invocation and quiet astonishment, whose atmosphere will haunt the reader long after they close the book. Praise for John Kinsella: 'Kinsella's poems are a very rare feat: they are narratives of feeling. Vivid sight — of landscapes, of animals, of human forms in distant light — becomes insight. There is, often, the shock of the new. But somehow awaited, even familiar. Which is the homecoming of a true poet' George Steiner
- Author
- John Kinsella
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 125
- Publisher
- Picador USA
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 978-0-330-51184-1
- EAN
- 9780330511841
- Genres
- poetry
- Release date
- 2012
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