Jam Tree Gully: Poems
Jam Tree Gully : Poems is a collection of poems by Australian poet John Kinsella, published by W. W. Norton in USA in 2012.[1] The collection contains 101 poems from a variety of sources.[2] Twenty of the poems use quotes from Walden; or Life in the Woods for their epigraph, and a further twenty take their title from a quotation, or a paraphrase of a quotation, from Thoreau. Contents
Critical receptionWriting in Transnational Literature in November 2013, Tim Bristow noted that this "collection documents Kinsella's version of the American poet's nineteenth-century project in selfreliance, undertaken in a dwelling place outside York, Western Australia, to settle a piece of land and write out a portable sense of place that is attuned to an acute geographic site." He went on to state that the poems show an "acute sensibility to things, objects, and events, at least in its literary form as instanced by Kinsella, invokes human impact while carefully mapping dependencies and relations between things."[3] Awards
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The author wishes to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land he writes. See alsoReferences
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