Drowning in wheat : selected poems 1980-2015 / John Kinsella.

Formerly CIP. Uk

Contents note continued: From Sand. The Sands of Djarlgarro Beelier -- From Luminous World. Bushfire Sun -- Lexical Spectrum 1 -- White Painting -- Ganya -- Untitled J04 -- From Churchill College Artworks. The Travelling Eye - a piece of 'op. cit' -- To Boullee (1993) by Michael Dan Archer -- The Many Moods of Marilyn, a la Andy Warhol -- From Armour. Burning Eyes -- Write-Off -- Yellow -- Reverse Anthropomorphism -- Hyperbole -- Resurrection Plants at Nookaminnie Rock -- Zoo Visits -- From Sea Shanties -- Three Poems on Armour -- Two Poems for Peter Porter -- Wattle -- Caveat -- Maralinga -- From Jam Tree Gully. De-fencing the Block -- Goat -- Reptile Life -- Hair -- Sacred Kingfisher and Trough Filled with Water Pumped from Deep Underground -- Red Shed -- Kangaroos in Torchlight -- Mea Culpa: Cleaning the Gutters -- Envoy -- From Syncretistics and Marine. Tropicbirds -- Bats at Grand Fond -- Ode to Margouillats -- Palm Elegy for Jim -- Belliers & '28s' -- From Sack. Sack -- Blue Asbestos on my Bedhead -- The Fable of the Great Sow -- Morgellons -- Sleeping with a Southern Carpet Python -- Penillion of Riding Past the Radio Astronomy Observatory Amidst Hedges and Fields -- Penillion for Pussy Riot -- Penillion of Tuning the Harpsichord (for J. Mattheson's Harpsichord Suite no. 12 in F Minor as tuned and played by Dan Tidhar at the Fitzwilliam) -- Penillion of His Last Harpsichord -- Loss -- Penillion of Cormorants in Polluted River -- Penillion of Iron Ore Eaters -- Penillion of Zennor Head -- Penillion of the Burra Dust Devil -- From A Shared Wonder of Light. The Stephen Whitney: Wrecked on West Calf Island (51.28N/09.31W) -- Mouths all Coloured Green -- Oilean Chleire Rejuvenation Poem for Grainne.

Contents note continued: From Visitants. A Bright Cigar-Shaped Object Hovers Over Mount Pleasant -- Dispossession -- Visitant Eclogue -- Figures in a Paddock -- From Zoo. Charlie -- Anonymous -- From The Hierarchy of Sheep. Hockney's Doll Boy at the Local Country Women's Association Annual Musical: Wheatbelt, Western Australia -- The Hierarchy of Sheep - a report from my brother -- Drugs and Country Towns -- Funeral Oration -- Il faut cultiver notre jardin -- Hectic Red -- From Zone. Gone to Seed -- Obituary -- From New Poems: Peripheral Light. Sine qua non -- Lyrical Unification in Gambier -- Poltergeist House Eclogue -- The Burning of the Hay Stacks -- Chainsaw -- From Doppler Effect. Polytype -- Every Now & Again Thoughts of Bombay Enter the Heads of Those in Bangalore -- Ornithology -- Frame(d) -- Calendar: A Continuous Narrative -- The Rust Eclogues: Radnoti, Poetry, and The Strains of Appropriation -- Marginalia -- Breathers -- I Unsubscribe -- Why Write No Poetry More -- & Succor -- From The New Arcadia. Rain Gauge -- 180 Degrees of Separation -- Crop Duster -- Mowing -- A Swarm of Paragliders -- Rodeo -- Map: Land Subjected to Inundation -- Borrow Pit -- Redneck Refutation -- The Damage Done -- Salt Semi-Ode -- Among the Murk I Will Find Things to Worship -- From America. Before and After the Famine -- My Father Has Never Been to America -- From Love Sonnets: Taking the first two lines of Zora Cross's 'Love Sonnets'. VI -- XXXI -- XXXIV -- LV -- From Shades of the Sublime. Novelty -- Sympathy - Bogged -- Wave Motion Light Fixed and Finished -- Sounds of the Wheatbelt -- Riding the Cobra at the York Show (The Artificial Infinite) -- Some: An Ode to the Partitive Article -- Wet Wood -- Forest Encomia of the South-West -- From The Jaguar's Dream. Leconte de Lisle's 'Le reve du jaguar' (The Jaguar's Dream) -- Arthur Rimbaud's 'Le bateau ivre' --.

From Poems 1980-1994. Notes on Fire-tumbles -- Finches -- Links -- Night Parrots -- Fire-eaters at Lasseter's Reef -- Sick Woman -- The Black Sun -- Inland -- Old Hands/New Tricks -- Two Days Before Harvest -- The Myth of the Grave -- Pillars of Salt -- Catchment -- The Orchardist -- Black Suns -- A Field of White Butterflies -- Paperbarks -- The Bottlebrush Flowers -- Plumburst -- The Phenomena that Surround a Sighting of Eclipse Island -- Swarm -- Of -- Sexual Politics In Eadweard Muybridge's Man Walking, After Traumatism Of The Head -- Warhols -- Skippy Rock, Augusta: Warning, the Undertow -- Chillies -- Wireless Hill -- Warhol at Wheatlands -- Bluff Knoll Sublimity -- Skeleton Weed/Generative Grammar -- From The Silo: A Pastoral Symphony. Brothers Trapping Parrots at Mullewa -- Hydraulics, Flywheels, Saw and PTO -- The Ascension of Sheep -- Hoppers and Gargoyles -- Rock Picking: Building Cairns -- A Rare Sight -- Harvest -- Counterpoint -- Shootings -- Essay On Myxomatosis -- The Silo -- Mala In Se: Death Of An Innocent By Snakebite -- Why They Stripped the Last Trees from the Banks of the Creek -- Fog -- Alf Reckons Lucy's The Bloke -- The Wild West -- The Fire in the Forty-Four -- Goading Storms out of a Darkening Field -- Parrot Deaths -- From Lightning Tree. The Coconut Story -- A Short Tour of the Cocos Atoll -- West Island Report -- Indian Ocean Ode -- Anathalamion -- Lightning Tree -- In Expectation of a Lightning Strike on Wireless Hill -- Tremors: A Report -- Approaching the Anniversary of my Last Meeting with my Son -- Tenebrae -- From The Hunt. Wild Radishes -- Drowning in Wheat -- Echidna -- The Hunt -- Reticulating the Avocados -- An Aerial View of Wheatlands in Mid-Autumn -- The Journey -- Pig Melons -- On the Transferring of Three Generations of Family Ashes from their Graves - A Farewell to Wheatlands -- The Machine of the Twentieth Century Rolls Through the High-Yielding Crop --.

Drowning in Wheat collects the best of three decades of John Kinsella's astonishing poetry in one volume. Kinsella is universally acknowledged as one of the greatest living Australian poets, and arguably the most important 'eco-poet' of the age; however, this collection also reveals a writer of unexpected and remarkable versatility, and one fluent in an almost bewildering range of forms, registers and voices. Despite its great thematic range, Kinsella's overarching project emerges all the more clearly: Drowning in Wheat is a clarion call and a call to order, a plea to listen to the earth - and to understand our own place within it while we still can. It is also an ideal introduction to one of the essential poets of the age.

Adult.

Also issued online.

Poetry Book Society Special Commendation, 2016.