Activist Poetics by John Kinsella: Anarchy in the Avon Valley [Paperback]

John Kinsella is known internationally as the acclaimed author of more than thirty books of poetry and prose, but in tandem with - and often directly through - his creative and critical work, Kinsella is also a prominent activist. In this important collection of essays the vegan anarchist pacifist poet claims that poetry can act as a vital form of resistance to a variety of social and ethical ills, in particular ecological damage and abuse. Kinsella builds on his earlier notion of 'linguistic disobedience' evolving out of civil disobedience, and critiques the figurative qualities of his poems in a context of resistance. The book includes explorations of anarchism, veganism, pacifism, and ecological poetics. For Kinsella all poetry is political and can be a call to action.John Kinsella is known internationally as the acclaimed author of more than thirty books of poetry and prose, but in tandem with - and often directly through - his creative and critical work, Kinsella is also a prominent activist. In this important collection of essays the vegan anarchist pacifist poet claims that poetry can act as a vital form of resistance to a variety of social and ethical ills, in particular ecological damage and abuse. Kinsella builds on his earlier notion of 'linguistic disobedience' evolving out of civil disobedience, and critiques the figurative qualities of his poems in a context of resistance. The book includes explorations of anarchism, veganism, pacifism, and ecological poetics. For Kinsella all poetry is political and can be a call to action.Acknowledgements
Map of Avon Valley
Introduction: Blood & Salt - Niall Lucy
1. Herewith the (Auto) Raz?: Activism and the Poet
2. Standing Up to Aggressors
3. Why I Am a Pacifist
4. Plagues & Bioethics
5. Refugees & Australia
6. Wheatbelt Isohalines & the Making of Isopleths:The 'Annihilation of Distance' & Other Subtexts associated with the Creation of a Sequence of Poems
7. Half-Masts: A Prosody of TeleclC%