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States of Poetry WA Podcast | Two poems by John Kinsella

John Kinsella reads his poems 'Swimming Pool' and 'Graphology Endgame 100: I am a dickhead' which feature in series two of the Western Australian States of Poetry anthology.

<div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry-2017/states-of-poetry-wa/196-states-of-poetry-2017-western-australia/4333-graphology-endgame-100-i-am-a-dickhead-by-john-kinsella-states-of-poetry-wa-series-two">'Graphology Endgame 100: I am a dickhead' by John Kinsella | States of Poetry WA - Series Two</a></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/features/book-of-the-week/author/1770-johnkinsella">John Kinsella</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry-2017/states-of-poetry-wa" title="States of Poetry Western Australia - Series Two">States of Poetry Western Australia - Series Two</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody">  <div class="k2IntroText"> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I am a dickhead in ways I thought I wasn’t</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I am a dickhead in ways people who call me a dickhead can’t imagine</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I am a dickhead in ways people who call me a dickhead can imagine</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I am a dickhead with residues and hangovers of misapplic ... </div> </div> </div>   <div class="tagItemView"> <div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry-2017/states-of-poetry-wa/196-states-of-poetry-2017-western-australia/4332-grasshopper-by-john-kinsella-states-of-poetry-wa-series-two">'Grasshopper' by John Kinsella | States of Poetry WA - Series Two</a></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/features/book-of-the-week/author/1770-johnkinsella">John Kinsella</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry-2017/states-of-poetry-wa" title="States of Poetry Western Australia - Series Two">States of Poetry Western Australia - Series Two</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody">  <div class="k2IntroText"> <p>Grasshopper on the window, the flyscreen, and stepping out<br />into the beige heat, over us. Tangled in our hair, hooked to our backs.</p> <p>Grasshopper, cod wisdom. Grasshopper <em>contraband</em> on the eye-<br />out for plagues. The Australian Plague Locust and its tendency</p> <p>to shift character when gathered together. In worship. In parliament.<br />O phase polyphenism, in which mor ... </div> </div> </div>   <div class="tagItemView"> <div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry-2017/states-of-poetry-wa/196-states-of-poetry-2017-western-australia/4331-detracking-the-body-exterminate-by-john-kinsella-states-of-poetry-wa-series-two">'Detracking the Body Examinate' by John Kinsella | States of Poetry WA - Series Two</a></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/features/book-of-the-week/author/1770-johnkinsella">John Kinsella</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry-2017/states-of-poetry-wa" title="States of Poetry Western Australia - Series Two">States of Poetry Western Australia - Series Two</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody">  <div class="k2IntroText"> <p>We are thrilled to find evidence of roos returning –<br />after being driven out of the reserve and slaughtered<br />by hunters, the survivors are finding refuge at Jam Tree Gully.<br />The vestiges of the old mob. And maybe new mob driven<br />this way by hunters down on Victoria Plains. In the long grass<br />they hide. They make tracks and graze and flatten<br />areas for rest. They are <e ... </div> </div> </div>   <div class="tagItemView"> <div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry-2017/states-of-poetry-wa/196-states-of-poetry-2017-western-australia/4330-sui-generis-by-john-kinsella-states-of-poetry-wa-series-two">'Sui Generis' by John Kinsella | States of Poetry WA - Series Two</a></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/features/book-of-the-week/author/1770-johnkinsella">John Kinsella</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry-2017/states-of-poetry-wa" title="States of Poetry Western Australia - Series Two">States of Poetry Western Australia - Series Two</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody">  <div class="k2IntroText"> <p>It rained heavy, ridiculously heavy, when the heat<br />was at its peak, and then it went dry – the ebb & flow<br />of the surface-water, the water soaked deep. It’s<br />thin-on now, even vanished. A dry creeping towards<br />longer cold nights. The tank is down to 20 000 litres,<br />or thereabouts. And no clean air for weeks, as farmers<br />have burnt their tinderish stubble to ash, ... </div> </div> </div>   <div class="tagItemView"> <div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry-2017/states-of-poetry-wa/196-states-of-poetry-2017-western-australia/4329-about-john-kinsella-states-of-poetry-wa-series-two">About John Kinsella | States of Poetry WA - Series Two</a></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/">States of Poetry</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry-2017/states-of-poetry-wa" title="States of Poetry Western Australia - Series Two">States of Poetry Western Australia - Series Two</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody"> <div class="customHighlightText"><p><span class="dropcap">J</span>ohn Kinsella’s most recent volumes of poetry are <em>On the Outskirts</em> (UQP, 2017) <em>Firebreaks</em> (WW Norton, 2016), <em>Drowning in Wheat: Selected poems</em> 1980–2015 (Picador, 2016), and the three volume edition of his <em>Graphology Poems 1995–2015</em> (Five Islands Press, 2016). His poetry collections have won a variety of awards ...</p> ... <a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry-2017/states-of-poetry-wa/196-states-of-poetry-2017-western-australia/4329-about-john-kinsella-states-of-poetry-wa-series-two">(read more)</a></div> </div> </div>   <div class="tagItemView"> <div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry-2017/states-of-poetry-wa/196-states-of-poetry-2017-western-australia/4328-swimming-pool-by-john-kinsella-states-of-poetry-wa-series-two">'Swimming Pool' by John Kinsella | States of Poetry WA - Series Two</a></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/features/book-of-the-week/author/1770-johnkinsella">John Kinsella</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/poetry/states-of-poetry-2017/states-of-poetry-wa" title="States of Poetry Western Australia - Series Two">States of Poetry Western Australia - Series Two</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody">  <div class="k2IntroText"> <p><em>for Lorraine and Tony</em></p> <p>Not an expression of wealth but one of quiet desperation,<br />the heat and dry eviscerating hope – a giant shadehouse<br />of green cloth, and an above-ground keyhole<br />swimming pool, with avocadoes and ferns edging<br />the cement slabs, aura in the midday twilight.</p> <p>And the red dust, too fine to shut out, decorating<br />the aqua-emerald wat ... </div> </div> </div>   <div class="tagItemView"> <div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2017/october-2017-no-395/212-october-2017-no-395/4298-a-survey-of-environmental-writing">A survey of environmental writing</a></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/">Australian Book Review</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2017/october-2017-no-395" title="October 2017, no. 395">October 2017, no. 395</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody"> <div class="customHighlightText"><p><span class="dropcap">T</span>o complement our coverage of new books on the subject, we invited a number of writers, scholars, and environmentalists to nominate the books that have had the greatest effect on them from an environmental point of view.</p> ... <a href="/abr-online/archive/2017/october-2017-no-395/212-october-2017-no-395/4298-a-survey-of-environmental-writing">(read more)</a></div> </div> </div>   <div class="tagItemView"> <div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2017/april-2017-no-390/201-april-2017-no-390/4019-geoff-page-reviews-the-fremantle-press-anthology-of-western-australian-poetry-by-john-kinsella-and-tracy-ryan-eds">The Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry</a> <span>edited by John Kinsella and Tracy Ryan</span></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/features/book-of-the-week/author/2451-geoffpage">Geoff Page</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2017/april-2017-no-390" title="April 2017, no. 390">April 2017, no. 390</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody">  <div class="tagItemImageBlock abr-tags__book-cover"> <span class="tagItemImage"> <a href="/abr-online/archive/2017/april-2017-no-390/201-april-2017-no-390/4019-geoff-page-reviews-the-fremantle-press-anthology-of-western-australian-poetry-by-john-kinsella-and-tracy-ryan-eds" title="Geoff Page reviews &#039;The Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry&#039; edited by John Kinsella and Tracy Ryan"> <img src="/media/k2/items/cache/3e96d38302447f1cf99d475dfb5c308d_L.jpg" alt="Geoff Page reviews &#039;The Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry&#039; edited by John Kinsella and Tracy Ryan" style="width:auto; height:auto;" /> </a> </span> </div>  <div class="k2IntroText hasItemImage abr-tags__book-cover"> <p><span class="dropcap">T</span>he need for this book is self-evident in a way that a similarly historical anthology for New South Wales or Victorian poetry would not be. From many perspectives, Perth is one of the most remote cities in the world and there is no doubt that the state’s uniqueness is captured in this extensive, though tightly edited, selection. Despite its comparable treatment of ... </div> </div> </div>   <div class="tagItemView"> <div class="tagItemHeader"> <h2 class="tagItemTitle"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2017/april-2017-no-390/201-april-2017-no-390/3986-brenda-walker-reviews-old-growth-by-john-kinsella">Old Growth</a> <span>by John Kinsella</span></h2>  <div class="abr-article-review-details"><span class="Grey-Medium">by <a rel="author" href="/features/book-of-the-week/author/4288-brendawalker">Brenda Walker</a></span> <span class="abr-bullet">•</span> </div> <div class="abr-article-issue"><a href="/abr-online/archive/2017/april-2017-no-390" title="April 2017, no. 390">April 2017, no. 390</a></div> </div> <div class="tagItemBody">  <div class="tagItemImageBlock abr-tags__book-cover"> <span class="tagItemImage"> <a href="/abr-online/archive/2017/april-2017-no-390/201-april-2017-no-390/3986-brenda-walker-reviews-old-growth-by-john-kinsella" title="Brenda Walker reviews &#039;Old Growth&#039; by John Kinsella"> <img src="/media/k2/items/cache/08b1cd314c9fb06eec06f7bd0ea9dedc_L.jpg" alt="Brenda Walker reviews &#039;Old Growth&#039; by John Kinsella" style="width:auto; height:auto;" /> </a> </span> </div>  <div class="k2IntroText hasItemImage abr-tags__book-cover"> <p><span class="dropcap">J</span>ohn Kinsella’s short stories are the closest thing Australians have to Ron Rash’s tales of washed-out rural America, where weakened and solitary men stand guard over their sad patch of compromised integrity in a world of inescapable poverty, trailer homes, uninsured sickness, and amphetamine wastage. 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