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| | Harvesting memories - Books - www.theage.com.au |
 | | Since John Kinsella left Australia permanently in 1996, with his wife, poet and novelist Tracy Ryan - deciding that John Howard's Australia was not for them - his poetic themes have focused ever more sharply on Australia and, in particular, on the West Australian wheatbelt of his youth, now devastated by salination from over-use. |
 | | Kinsella, who was born in 1963, has published almost 30 books of poetry, prose, stories and autobiography, receiving many awards, as well as editing an anthology of contemporary Australian poetry, Landbridge. |
 | | Kinsella now divides his year between teaching Australian poetry and theory at Kenyon, from January to June, teaching creative writing at Cambridge University during Michaelmas term and presenting a series of lectures on landscape and language at Edith Cowan University in Perth mid-year. |
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