All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 February UWAP writers release new books ahead of Festival appearances UWAP writers release new books ahead of Festival appearances 17/02/2022 | 3 MINS Two Western Australian authors, who are drawn to history and a sense of place, will be guests at Perth Festival Writers Weekend after publishing new works. John KinsellaΓÇÖs The Ascension of Sheep, LIT Publishing, is the first of three volumes of Collected Poems that dates back to when he was aged 17 in 1980 and moves on through 41-plus years of writing. KinsellaΓÇÖs major poetic concerns have been how to write place without claiming place (he acknowledges he lives on stolen Aboriginal land), how to write of being part of many place-experiences at once, and how to write the biosphere with ecological and humanitarian justice in mind. Kinsella, who lives with his family in the Wheatbelt, is always attuned to the natural world and his activist poetry examines how humans respond to a world that they have placed under pressure. Image: Writers Josh Kemp and John Kinsella. Josh Kemp was the winner
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John KinsellaΓÇÖs The Ascension of Sheep, LIT Publishing, is the first of three volumes of Collected Poems that dates back to when he was aged 17 in 1980 and moves on through 41-plus years of writing.
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KinsellaΓÇÖs major poetic concerns have been how to write place without claiming place (he acknowledges he lives on stolen Aboriginal land), how to write of being part of many place-experiences at once, and how to write the biosphere with ecological and humanitarian justice in mind.
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Kinsella, who lives with his family in the Wheatbelt, is always attuned to the natural world and his activist poetry examines how humans respond to a world that they have placed under pressure.
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