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'The final book in the Jam Tree Gully trilogy, Open Door continues Kinsella’s investigation into environmental responsibility and the complexity of our connection to the land of rural Australia.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Notes
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Dedication: To Tracy and Tim an the world's refugees and homeless.
The author wishes to acknowledge the Ballardong Noongar people, the traditional owners and custodians of the land he writes.
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Thom Sullivan Reviews Open Door by John Kinsella
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , September 2020;
— Review of Open Door 2018 selected work poetry -
Precise, Protean as Ever
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 8 February 2020; (p. 25)
— Review of Open Door 2018 selected work poetry'That poet John Kinsella is abrasive as a xanthorrhoea, electrically sensitive as a platypus bill and self-reflexively across all issues of the anthropocene is by now well integrated into his writing identity. With Open Door, the third of his Jam Tree Gully cycle, we find him returning to his family’s rural block on Ballardong Noongar land in Western Australia’s vast wheatbelt. In the place he loves and hates the most Kinsella immediately finds “a Dry as combustible as morality”, forcing him to fit his theme of homecoming and return through a penitential lens of empathy and rage, as he observes the ongoing effects of agricultural cauterisation of the landscape and the suffering of creatures in his midst. This is the poet as activist-crusader and student of animals, once again exhibiting his membership of a species increasingly tortured by its own culpability. As such, Open Door is ironically caged, not only by the obviousness of climate change, the bleeding obvious, but by how to write about it in the face of what amounts to a culturally arthritic denial.' (Publication summary)
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Broken and Open, Cycling and Re-cycling : Poetry of the Australian Rural Landscape Now
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , April vol. 23 no. 1 2019;
— Review of Open Door 2018 selected work poetry ; Broken Ground 2018 selected work poetry ; Rondo 2018 selected work poetry
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Broken and Open, Cycling and Re-cycling : Poetry of the Australian Rural Landscape Now
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , April vol. 23 no. 1 2019;
— Review of Open Door 2018 selected work poetry ; Broken Ground 2018 selected work poetry ; Rondo 2018 selected work poetry -
Precise, Protean as Ever
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 8 February 2020; (p. 25)
— Review of Open Door 2018 selected work poetry'That poet John Kinsella is abrasive as a xanthorrhoea, electrically sensitive as a platypus bill and self-reflexively across all issues of the anthropocene is by now well integrated into his writing identity. With Open Door, the third of his Jam Tree Gully cycle, we find him returning to his family’s rural block on Ballardong Noongar land in Western Australia’s vast wheatbelt. In the place he loves and hates the most Kinsella immediately finds “a Dry as combustible as morality”, forcing him to fit his theme of homecoming and return through a penitential lens of empathy and rage, as he observes the ongoing effects of agricultural cauterisation of the landscape and the suffering of creatures in his midst. This is the poet as activist-crusader and student of animals, once again exhibiting his membership of a species increasingly tortured by its own culpability. As such, Open Door is ironically caged, not only by the obviousness of climate change, the bleeding obvious, but by how to write about it in the face of what amounts to a culturally arthritic denial.' (Publication summary)
-
Thom Sullivan Reviews Open Door by John Kinsella
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , September 2020;
— Review of Open Door 2018 selected work poetry