{"product_id":"harsh-hakea-by-john-kinsella-9781760802349","title":"Harsh Hakea","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHarsh Hakea \u003c\/i\u003eis John Kinsella's second volume of collected works dating from 2005 to 2014 capturing a career \u003ci\u003ein media res\u003c\/i\u003e. It includes poems from widely read volumes like \u003ci\u003eJam Tree Gully\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 2013 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry, and ones from lesser-known volumes like \u003ci\u003eLove Sonnets\u003c\/i\u003e, which was published by the British small press, Equipage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the first time, John Kinsella's poetry is collected in one place, including poems that have appeared in chapbooks, publications outside of Australia, and those which are no longer in print. In this volume, Kinsella's poetry exemplifies a heightened awareness of the specificity of place, but also of the perspective of being within it or removed from it, as a guest living on stolen Aboriginal land. Kinsella's poems often begin with the personal and broaden out in their reach. Reading this second volume of the \u003ci\u003eCollected \u003c\/i\u003eforces the reader to consider questions that have no convenient answer, that remain pressing still today; questions about self-destruction, masculinity, environmentalism, mortality, voilence, and protest. This is a volume that is deeply moving at times, unsettling at others, sometimes both \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ea landmark addition to Australian literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'One of Australia's most vivid, energetic and stormy poets, a writer who turns to the natural world with a fierce light.'  Edward Hirsch, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Kinsella's work conveys the damage done through capitalism, colonialism, patriarchy and their pervasive discourse. Yet it also illuminates how to see forms of connective beauty and resistant power between the human and more-than-human. ' Ann Vickery, Angelaki\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Works of immense range, from extended lyrical meditations to taut experimental sonic poems and everything in between.'  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWritingWA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47932166635756,"sku":"9781760802349","price":64.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781760802349-harsh-hakea.jpg?v=1783856642","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/harsh-hakea-by-john-kinsella-9781760802349","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}