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Pastoraclasm [Minkštas viršelis]

  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 112 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 198x129x8 mm, Not illustrated
  • Serija: Salt Modern Poets
  • Išleidimo metai: 15-Mar-2023
  • Leidėjas: Salt Publishing
  • ISBN-10: 1784632848
  • ISBN-13: 9781784632847
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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 112 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 198x129x8 mm, Not illustrated
  • Serija: Salt Modern Poets
  • Išleidimo metai: 15-Mar-2023
  • Leidėjas: Salt Publishing
  • ISBN-10: 1784632848
  • ISBN-13: 9781784632847
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Departing from Virgils Eclogues, The Pastoraclasm is an urgent environmental address to humans, nature and vegetable gardens. During pandemic lockdowns, poet John Kinsella realised that he would have to garden not because he enjoys it but because his family, who live in the bush, would need whatever he could grow. Fierce summers, fire danger, and only having access to rainwater tank water refusing to drain the aquifer further by using one of the two bores at Jam Tree Gully, reinforced the realisation that gardening needs to be a careful negotiation with the limitations of time, place and conditions of presence.



What developed was a set of dialogues with the garden, and with the endemic plants and animals that surrounded it. Searching for a decolonising antipastoral eclogue, the poet continues his decades-long practice of investigating the nature of pastoral and its failure to translate into the Australian environment/s.



Writing to a poet in Wales, Kinsella said: Were in regional lockdown here, and trying to grow veggies in drought conditions. Lot of silvereyes, thornbills and gerygones out there today overcast, which is unusual at the moment (still very hot), and that has them vigorous with hope, I guess... but no rain predicted. On emergency water supplies now.



In this cycle of eco-eclogues, a counter-pastoral of responsibility emerges one that acknowledges the toxic impact of colonialism, and which seeks to address human rapacity through challenging consumerism and industrialism and offering an alternative way of living. As garden and gardener, soul and self, all speak with each other, they are conscious of how close fire and other catastrophes are, and together they try to evoke a healing and a path through to justice for the biosphere. Known for his wide variety of poetic approaches and techniques, this collection is very much about utterance, place and a belief that there are no easy garden metaphors, that gardens are also spaces of responsibility.

Recenzijos

John Kinsellas work has always engaged explicitly with environmental issues and The Pastoraclasm recounts lockdown gardening through the prism of the Eclogue. The poets drought-challenged garden provides the setting for a series of meditations on the biosphere and the pastoral genre. When seeds sold out during lockdown panic, the poet seeks out old packets of organic heirloom seeds, and these I sow. So, too, he sows the eclogue and works with what emerges. Kinsella has always been alert to the moral trail left by literary forms and, of course, he interrogates the pastoral eclogue to see if its an adequate vessel to describe contemporary environmental catastrophe. -- Gwyneth Lewis * PN Review * Kinsellas body of work now spans more than thirty collections. The first two substantial volumes of his trilogy of collected poems, The Ascension of Sheep and Harsh Hakea, bring together pieces published in pamphlets and major volumes, journals and out-of-print editions. His work is often described as political: he has used his poems to speak out against nuclear technology, capitalist greed, colonialism, cruelty to animals and the death penalty. He has written eloquently about land rights, chronicled the rough work of sheep farming, sketched Grantchester Meadows in verse and taken aim at Cambridges animal-testing labs and pesticide-laden crops. He has published triolets, sestinas and verse dramas, experimental shape-poems and landscape poems featuring big oil. His idylls involve chemical pesticides; his eclogues feature maggoty sheep.



The Pastoraclasm is the next stage in Kinsellas project to modernize pastoral poetry. Here he styles himself alternately as a gardener and a pastoral elegist. In ecologues, poetic dialogues, psalmodic couplets, a roundel and free verse, he tends his fragile garden. He acknowledges the difficulty and strangeness of trying to ensure that his seedlings survive the drought as climate shifts and breaks down. He acknowledges that this landscape fringed by volcanoes is a land of conflagration, and with fiery air comes a reminder that international travel fuelled the pandemic. -- Yvonne Reddick * TLS *

John Kinsellas most recent volumes of poetry include Drowning in Wheat: Selected Poems 1980-2015 (Picador, 2016), Insomnia (Picador, 2019; WW Norton, 2020), and Brimstone: Villanelles (Arc, 2020). He is also the author of numerous works of fiction, memoir and criticism, and a frequent collaborator with other poets, critics, artists and musicians. Peepal Tree have published the cycle of works he as co-written with Kwame Dawes. He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, and Emeritus Professor of Literature and Environment at Curtin University, Western Australia. His many prizes and awards include the Australian Prime Minster's Award for Poetry, the Christopher Brennan Award for Lifetime Achievement in poetry, as well as PBS special commendations, recommendations and a choice for Armour (Picador, 2011). He is a well-known environmental, human and animal rights activist.