- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- Map of Avon Valley
- Introduction: Blood & Salt
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Chapter 1 Herewith the (Auto) Razó: Activism and the Poet -
Chapter 2 Standing Up to Aggressors -
Chapter 3 Why I Am a Pacifist -
Chapter 4 Plagues & Bioethics -
Chapter 5 Refugees & Australia -
Chapter 6 Wheatbelt Isohalines & the Making of Isopleths: The ‘Annihilation of Distance’ & Other Subtexts Associated with the Creation of a Sequence of Poems -
Chapter 7 Half-Masts: A Prosody of Telecommunications -
Chapter 8 Geodysplasia: Geographical Abnormalities & Anomalies of an Activist Poetics -
Chapter 9 Activist Readings of Three Australian Poems -
Chapter 10 Working with Coral Hull on Zoo (A Collaboration) -
Chapter 11 De-mapping & Reconnoitring Notions of Boundaries – Mutually Said: Blogging & Acting -
Chapter 12 Poetry, Justice & the Court -
Chapter 13 The School of Environmental Poetics & Creativity - Coda: Visitors
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Appendix 1 On Anarchism: Tracy Ryan Interviews John Kinsella -
Appendix 2 Dialogue on Vegan Ethics: John Kinsella & Tracy Ryan - References
- Index
Standing Up to Aggressors
Standing Up to Aggressors
- Chapter:
- (p.16) Chapter 2 Standing Up to Aggressors
- Source:
- Activist Poetics
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
This chapter describes how Kinsella uses Henry David Thoreau's Walden as a framework to make points about ecological issues. Having lived in America, England and Australia, Walden allows Kinsella a full canvas to explore local and international issues of place, belonging and environment, and the cultural politics such an investigation conveys. The chapter also includes Kinsella's account on corellas and foxes.
Keywords: John Kinsella, ecological issues, Henry David Thoreau, Walden, corellas, foxes
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- Map of Avon Valley
- Introduction: Blood & Salt
-
Chapter 1 Herewith the (Auto) Razó: Activism and the Poet -
Chapter 2 Standing Up to Aggressors -
Chapter 3 Why I Am a Pacifist -
Chapter 4 Plagues & Bioethics -
Chapter 5 Refugees & Australia -
Chapter 6 Wheatbelt Isohalines & the Making of Isopleths: The ‘Annihilation of Distance’ & Other Subtexts Associated with the Creation of a Sequence of Poems -
Chapter 7 Half-Masts: A Prosody of Telecommunications -
Chapter 8 Geodysplasia: Geographical Abnormalities & Anomalies of an Activist Poetics -
Chapter 9 Activist Readings of Three Australian Poems -
Chapter 10 Working with Coral Hull on Zoo (A Collaboration) -
Chapter 11 De-mapping & Reconnoitring Notions of Boundaries – Mutually Said: Blogging & Acting -
Chapter 12 Poetry, Justice & the Court -
Chapter 13 The School of Environmental Poetics & Creativity - Coda: Visitors
-
Appendix 1 On Anarchism: Tracy Ryan Interviews John Kinsella -
Appendix 2 Dialogue on Vegan Ethics: John Kinsella & Tracy Ryan - References
- Index
