Jam Tree Gully: Poems
2012 Australian poetry collection by John Kinsella
Jam Tree Gully : Poems is a collection of poems by Australian poet John Kinsella, published by W. W. Norton in USA in 2012.
The collection contains 101 poems from a variety of sources. 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.
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Critical reception
Writing 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."
Awards
2013 Prime Minister's Literary Awards for Poetry, winner
2013 Queensland Literary Awards, Judith Wright Calanthe Award, winner
See also
2012 in Australian literature
Notes
Dedication: for Tracy and Tim who live here, for John and Mum who helped build the place
The author wishes to acknowledge
the traditional owners of the land he writes.
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