John Kinsella

Feb 12, 2025 | overland.org.au | Karen Wyld |Scott Robinson |John Kinsella

Shortly after Europeans bumped into the southern continent that they’d been mythicising with fantastical drawings in the large blank section on their maps, fantastical white tales were penned. Centuries later, authors are still writing fiction that mythologises and dehumanises Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and too many of these works are being published in Australia and beyond.

Dec 18, 2024 | overland.org.au | John Kinsella

Poems 2016-2024 is a massive, vibrant and immersive collation of JH Prynne’s small press publication across this period. Some would call it a late life creative flourish, a glorious coda, but I don’t see it this way. Rather, this is an accumulation of concerns across a lifetime that have both relied on earlier form work and newly “discovered” expressions of genre (in poetry, and generally speaking) that require recasting, resaying, and varying.

Dec 1, 2024 | meanjin.com.au | John Kinsella

Everyone dreams of making a maze, don’t they? And here we are making one! Incredible. They were setting concrete foundations with wire anchors protruding, and curving mesh to make hollow ‘wire hedges’, and the bare paddock looked anything but alive. In fact, even the pasture had been killed off with herbicide. Embrace Australia’s finest writers: subscribe to MeanjinSubscriptions start at just $5 a month — which goes directly towards our writers’ fees. SUBSCRIBE

Nov 6, 2024 | businessplus.ie | John Kinsella

US stock futures and the dollar surged in Asia this morning as investors speculated on a potential victory for Republican Donald Trump in the US presidential election, though the race remained officially too close to call. Trump initially led Democrat Kamala Harris, with early results from Republican-leaning states favouring him. However, key battleground states that could decide the outcome were still up in the air and unlikely to be called soon.

Nov 1, 2024 | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | John Kinsella

“Jerkin’ ”, the opening song to iconoclastic Naarm/Melbourne band Amyl and the Sniffers’ third album, Cartoon Darkness, is an address to bullshit internet wank – “Keep jerkin’ on your squirter” – with its declaration: “Don’t wanna be stuck inside that negativity”. They don’t. This is a band truly gelling as a band. We’re talking the classic post-punk curve from pub and club DIY blasts to “serious” musicianship.