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with A Sometimes
114: NO THEME 13
with J Toledo & C Tse
113: INVISIBLE WALLS
with A Walker & D Disney
112: TREAT
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111: BABY
with S Deo & L Ferney
110: POP!
with Z Frost & B Jessen
109: NO THEME 12
with C Maling & N Rhook
108: DEDICATION
with L Patterson & L Garcia-Dolnik
107: LIMINAL
with B Li
106: OPEN
with C Lowe & J Langdon
105: NO THEME 11
with E Grills & E Stewart
104: KIN
with E Shiosaki
103: AMBLE
with E Gomez and S Gory
102: GAME
with R Green and J Maxwell
101: NO THEME 10
with J Kinsella and J Leanne
100: BROWNFACE
with W S Dunn
99: SINGAPORE
with J Ip and A Pang
97 & 98: PROPAGANDA
with M Breeze and S Groth
96: NO THEME IX
with M Gill and J Thayil
95: EARTH
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94: BAYT
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93: PEACH
with L Van, G Mouratidis, L Toong
92: NO THEME VIII
with C Gaskin
91: MONSTER
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90: AFRICAN DIASPORA
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89: DOMESTIC
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88: TRANSQUEER
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87: DIFFICULT
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86: NO THEME VII
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85: PHILIPPINES
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84: SUBURBIA
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83: MATHEMATICS
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82: LAND
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81: NEW CARIBBEAN
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80: NO THEME VI
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57.1: EKPHRASTIC
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57: CONFESSION
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56: EXPLODE
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55.1: DALIT / INDIGENOUS
with M Chakraborty and K MacCarter
55: FUTURE MACHINES
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54: NO THEME V
with F Wright and O Sakr
53.0: THE END
with P Brown
52.0: TOIL
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51.1: UMAMI
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51.0: TRANSTASMAN
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50.0: NO THEME IV
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49.1: A BRITISH / IRISH
with M Hall and S Seita
49.0: OBSOLETE
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48.1: CANADA
with K MacCarter and S Rhodes
48.0: CONSTRAINT
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47.0: COLLABORATION
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46.1: MELBOURNE
with M Farrell
46.0: NO THEME III
with F Plunkett
45.0: SILENCE
with J Owen
44.0: GONDWANALAND
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43.1: PUMPKIN
with K MacCarter
43.0: MASQUE
with A Vickery
42.0: NO THEME II
with G Ryan
41.1: RATBAGGERY
with D Hose
41.0: TRANSPACIFIC
with J Rowe and M Nardone
40.1: INDONESIA
with K MacCarter
40.0: INTERLOCUTOR
with L Hart
39.1: GIBBERBIRD
with S Gory
39.0: JACKPOT!
with S Wagan Watson
38.0: SYDNEY
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37.1: NEBRASKA
with S Whalen
37.0: NO THEME!
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36.0: ELECTRONICA
with J Jones
CONTRIBUTORS
John Kinsella
Dante Graphology Drawing Poems: 14 Works by John Kinsella
As part of my decades-long Graphology poems cycle, I have created many drawing-poems that (to my mind at least) exist between/around/across written text and visual images, and which hopefully test and blur semantic delineations and category definitions.
Posted in ARTWORKS
Tagged John Kinsella
NO THEME 10 Editorial
A callout for a poetry of consciousness ‘that enacts and is responsible for what it considers’, that has been written with an awareness of ‘crises, brinks and redress’, was always going to bring some powerful and confronting work.
Posted in ESSAYS
Tagged Jeanine Leane, John Kinsella
Submission to Cordite 101: NO THEME 10
Images courtesy of Jeanine Leane and John Kinsella. From now, and throughout 2021, we’re celebrating 25 years of publishing. Milestones include the publication of Cordite Poetry Review’s 100th issue in February, Cordite Books’ 40th print title, and the new free …
Posted in GUNCOTTON
Tagged Jeanine Leane, John Kinsella, Kent MacCarter
Brimstone Villanelle
All the sulphur of experiments and gardens of explosions and purifications, the Golden Splash Tooth the subceracea light of the shades and the damp and the sun’s show-through the mimicry of light and shadow-skin. Sun’s action is beneath away from …
Posted in 95: EARTH
Tagged John Kinsella
We Ask More
‘Give we the hills our equal prayer, Earth’s breezy hills and heaven’s blue sea; I ask for nothing further here But my own heart and liberty.’ Emily Brontë Ask everything more of layout under pressure. Ask for depths outside and …
Posted in 86: NO THEME VII
Tagged John Kinsella
Introduction to Matthew Hall’s False Fruits
Fruit is the apogee of the pastoral. It’s what the work, the waiting, the ritual and the thanks are for. But the making of fruit is costly and even the ‘natural’ cycle of things will be managed so some factors are privileged over others. In this cycle of post-lyrical poems, Hall questions the form and circumstances of these factors. What are they?
Posted in INTRODUCTIONS
Tagged Alissa Dinallo, John Kinsella, Lily Mae Martin, Matthew Hall
Activist Journal: Ireland and Germany Extraction, 2015-16
18/9/2015 Rosewood, Schull, Co. Cork, Ireland. Difficult and full fortnight of work coming up before I have to travel solo to London on bus, ferry and train.
Posted in ESSAYS
Tagged John Kinsella, michael dransfield, Tom Raworth, Tracy Ryan
The Collapse of Space: On Lisa Gorton’s The Life of Houses
I think making comparisons between Lisa Gorton’s The Life of Houses and other writers is somewhat distracting of the novel’s achievement.
Posted in ESSAYS
Tagged John Kinsella, Lisa Gorton
from Lip Trills
Strung out goes hard wired into the signature scarring so shown on arching barks as sampled tolerance slurs and ligatures, he shall have music wherever he goes to stack accumulating pocket money with foxed gatefold and the bells on his …
Posted in 67: A BRITISH / IRISH
Tagged Drew Milne, John Kinsella
Scarabs
Ah let’s do new where scarabs click Resonant dust from hashish headlight Forever dream thing sweeps through high brocade And mind is central, serene, lavender mists With a sucker punch below the graft, Below a mortar and pestle imprimatur — …
Posted in 63: COLLABORATION
Tagged John Kinsella, Thurston Moore
Riposte
Coming back to their neck of the woods, a shout was as good as a wolf and a basket as full as a boot full of tarnished medallions and useless keys, pugnacious as costume on a moonlit patio, swilling prosecco …
Posted in 63: COLLABORATION
Tagged John Kinsella, Pam Brown
Buzzkill
In the constant tramline motion of his trainers He took the third and added a choice amendment To their wish fulfilment; but don’t doubt he loved — He did, big time and strong, the tall buildings wavering. Sneaker rocker ripping …
Posted in 63: COLLABORATION
Tagged John Kinsella, Thurston Moore
Monument
1. Play the fluted column. Treasury of the consciousness of Man. Ring the emperors’ bells. The disappearing hat-trick. Replace chipped crockery. One copy among others. Animal furnishings. Will make nature obsolete? And so they cluster. Picture, fresco, miniature and stained-glass. …
Posted in 57: MASQUE
Tagged John Kinsella, Louis Armand
Shimmy
Short on shimmy they took to the disco with a resounding whomp of white & solid silver waves of wire; a platform to berate from, a wag the dog diorama; wearing only your shadow & shouting to the stomping throng …
Posted in UNIVERSAL ARCHIVE
Tagged John Kinsella, Pam Brown
Ali Alizadeh Interviews John Kinsella
John Kinsella’s most recent book Divine Comedy: Journeys Through a Regional Geography is an incredibly ambitious and meticulous rewriting of that great epic poem of the Middle Ages, Dante's The Divine Comedy. Our guest poetry editor for Epic, Ali Alizadeh, interviewed Kinsella recently, via email. Their discussion ranged from traditional notions of the epic form, and Kinsella's relationship with it, to ecological manifestoes and collaborative projects, and the concept of 'pushing against form'.
Posted in INTERVIEWS
Tagged Ali Alizadeh, John Kinsella
Ern Malley Jr.: My sister’s eyes are nothing like the sun…
Ern is of the park, and occasionally further afield. He channels, divines, and is pretty much an open book. He is losing his ambitions.
Posted in 24: CHILDREN OF MALLEY
Tagged John Kinsella
Ern Malley Jr. : Gnostic Iron Bird Jism
Ern is of the park, and occasionally further afield. He channels, divines, and is pretty much an open book. He is losing his ambitions.
Posted in 24: CHILDREN OF MALLEY
Tagged John Kinsella
Ern Malley Jr. : Crown Soliciting
Ern is of the park, and occasionally further afield. He channels, divines, and is pretty much an open book. He is losing his ambitions.
Posted in 24: CHILDREN OF MALLEY
Tagged John Kinsella
Ern Malley Jr. : Graphology 130: The dripping disincontinent
Ern is of the park, and occasionally further afield. He channels, divines, and is pretty much an open book. He is losing his ambitions.
Posted in 24: CHILDREN OF MALLEY
Tagged John Kinsella
Ern Malley Jr. : Mercurial, Mirabell… Anopheles: Culture-shift
Ern is of the park, and occasionally further afield. He channels, divines, and is pretty much an open book. He is losing his ambitions.
Posted in 24: CHILDREN OF MALLEY
Tagged John Kinsella
Laissez Faire
They were acting crazy around the card table. She was trying to teach the guys how to deal poker hands, the way it ought to be done — she was bluffing, they were too stoned, in this motel room like …
Posted in 06: NEW POETRY
Tagged John Kinsella, john tranter
Drugs and Country Towns
for Paul Muldoon The SS Commodore with tinted windows will make the run to Perth in a few hours, the stereo flat-tack and the driver pumped up, hanging out but intoxicated by the prospect of picking up, the hollowness filled …
Posted in 06: NEW POETRY
Tagged John Kinsella
Narrative
Long-hauled in the hot zone a road train tugs on the rightist strings and precedent is damned like tokenism, an outmoded supply strategy that has them talking of extracting organs from prisoners and sustaining life to promote suffering, suspicion the …
Posted in 01: UNTHEMED
Tagged John Kinsella
Wrapping the Hay
The hay has just been stacked in neat yellow bricks like some complex puzzle that needs to be solved. The shed’s full, it sits alone out there in the stark yellow paddock – pathetic edifice waiting to be torched or …
Posted in 01: UNTHEMED
Tagged John Kinsella