Hunt, The

John Kinsella portrays the lives and landscapes of modern rural Australia in emotionally charged poems which reinvent the possibilities of language. He has dusted down the pastoral, and made it a vibrant, contemporary form. Poetry Book Society Recommendation. ‘Astonishing fecundity and splendour. John Kinsella is a prodigy – a kind of fountain of Parnassus all in himself. His range, his cognitive music, his variety are unique in a poet of his age in the English-speaking world today…There are only a handful (or fewer) English language poets of his generation whose work is already so original, so fully formed, and so clearly destined to become part of the central tradition’ – Harold Bloom