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Divine Comedy: Journeys Through A Regional Geography
Author: John Kinsella
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ISBN: 9780702236662
Format: Paperback
Published: August 2008
Published By: University Of Queensland Press
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Published: August 2008
Published By: University Of Queensland Press
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John Kinsella's daring new volume of poetry, The Divine Comedy, is set in the wheatbelt region of Western Australia. It comprises three books- Purgatorio- up close, Paradiso- rupture, and Inferno- leisure centre. The poet narrator takes the reader on a tour through the wonders of nature in its full regalia, resisting forces of damage and indifference that would see it destroyed. This is a book of hope and redemption that nonetheless faces up to the terrors and traumas in all of us, terrors and traumas we play out on the world, often unwittingly.John Kinsella's daring new volume of poetry, The Divine Comedy, is set in the wheatbelt region of Western Australia. It comprises three books- Purgatorio- up close, Paradiso- rupture, and Inferno- leisure centre. The poet narrator takes the reader on a tour through the wonders of nature in its full regalia, resisting forces of damage and indifference that would see it destroyed. This is a book of hope and redemption that nonetheless faces up to the terrors and traumas in all of us, terrors and traumas we play out on the world, often unwittingly.John Kinsella has been a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University since 1997, and was made an Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College in 2008. He is also a Professional Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia, and Adjunct Professor to Edith Cowan University. He has published over thirty books.