The Darkest Pastoral
selected poems
$74.87
- Hardcover
272 pages
- Release Date
13 May 2025
Summary
The Darkest Pastoral: Poetry of Ecological Awakening
Illuminated by the spirit of ecological activism and decolonisation, The Darkest Pastoral engages deeply with nature, climate catastrophe and grief and the interconnectedness between humans and the natural world. John Kinsella’s poetry stretches and often breaks the lyric in an attempt to create new modes of intervention and action. Though focused around his homeplace in the Western Australian wheatbelt, much of his poetr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781324089292 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1324089296 |
| Author: | John Kinsella, Marjorie Perloff |
| Publisher: | WW Norton & Co |
| Imprint: | WW Norton & Co |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 13 May 2025 |
| Weight: | 500g |
| Dimensions: | 236mm x 160mm x 25mm |
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Critics Review
The Darkest Pastoral, in its sheer persistent brilliance of imagination and language, is a tour de force–John Kinsella demoting lyric alarms facing down the hungry maw of a bulldozer moving against a forest. Kinsella’s is an essential voice for our time and these poems are the elegant dispatches from the frontline of the twenty-first century by one of our true poetic giants.–Kwame Dawes, author of Sturge Town
About The Author
John Kinsella
John Kinsella is the author of more than fifty books. He is a fellow of Churchill College, University of Cambridge, and emeritus professor of literature and environment at Curtin University. He lives at Jam Tree Gully in the Western Australian wheatbelt.
Born in Vienna, Austria, Marjorie Perloff is the Sadie Dernham Patek Professor Emerita of Humanities at Stanford University, and the author of sixteen books.
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