John kinsella poet biography worksheet
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John Kinsella
Below this article is a short ‘manifesto’ piece on creating ‘concrete’ texts in ‘natural’ environments or environments in which the ‘natural world’ intervenes, ‘intrudes’, or defines the conditions of viewing. This necessitates a lot of scare quotes because of the problem of mediating the ‘natural’ in the context of human seeing, perception and activity. All human activity is contingent on the ‘natural world’, regardless of how much it attempts to distance itself from the materials and variables of its construction. In the case of the images below, it might entail a spider or some other creature walking over a sheet of paper displaying a poem — the poem/sheet placed on the ground (or elsewhere) in the expectation that something will cross its path, literally. The patience is in waiting to capture the photograph.
The series of poem-texts on sheets of A4 was done near Walwalinj in York between 2005 and 2008. The poems were written and printed and no copy kept (digital or otherwise). They were then photographed ‘in situ’ and the paper recycled. These poems exist somewhere between installations and
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Three Poems from Australia
Geoff Whalan, “Mistletoe Bird (Diaceum hirundinaceum),” Fogg Dam Conservation Reserve, Middle Point, Northern Territory, Australia, November 8, 2015
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We have nothing and everything to do with this adjustment.
Don’t expect a palinode here — I recant none of my accusations.
The mistletoe birds rife in the gully, beaking the pink translucence
of mistletoe fruits, feeding their young circles against triangles —
not so long ago the slaughter done to them by eagre farmers
wanting to kill off the ‘parasite-spreading’ birds.
We’re seeing more of them, and even a rufous whistler
hanging around, curious over the mistletoe birds’ excitement.
It’s the end of nesting season. I said to the rufous whistler —
eyeing off a branch and holding back his glorious song —
I am not incapable of recanting when I am wrong,
but I try to avoid making false accusations in the first place.
He looked dubious, but sent no message back to central
about a dystopian future, though so many trees are dying-off
despite all the rain. Thick and rare summer rain has brought
plumes and mushrooms and clouds of herbicide onto paddocks,
gardens, parks, road verges, the long paddock — with taints of love
we breathe this largesse, the red of an abst
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