Review: Brimstone: A Book of Villanelles, by John Kinsella
Keith Richmond, ASLEF Journal, June 2021
Someone is revving the shit out of a chainsaw
- The Damage Done by John Kinsella
John Kinsella is a prolific poet playright, novelist, academic, and eco-activist whose work is informed by his love for the landscape of his native Western Australia. In Brimstone (Arc, ï??10.99) Kinsella,’a supporter of worldwide indigenous rights’ and ‘vegan anarchist pacifist for 33 years’ wears his heart on his sleeve and his art on the page: And when leaflets fostering discrimination / Appear outside a wheatbelt supermarket, they gloss / Lines taken out of context and make a darkness burn
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