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On the Outskirts

John Kinsella

出版	University of Queensland Press, 2017
主題	Nature / GeneralPoetry / GeneralPoetry / Australian & OceanianPoetry / Subjects & Themes / Animals & Nature
ISBN	07022598029780702259807
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=eXVCAQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Inspired by the natural worlds surrounding T3 Bingen in Germany, Cambridge in England, the village of Schull in southwest Ireland and the West Australian wheatbelt, Kinsella explores through his poems the protection and valuing of human and animal life, and the environment itself. Reflecting on how the local and international are in constant flux and exchange, these poems consider the plight of refugees, the degradation of the natural world, militarisation and the tensions of global violence. As Kinsella contemplates the failure of public memory to memorialise and adequately face the horrors of the past, he reflects on the unresolved issues of history such as Nazism (Germany) and colonisation (Ireland and Australia). Influenced by William Blake's poetry and art, in particular Dante's Divine Comedy, Kinsella evokes in his poems a strong relationship between the visual and textual. On the Outskirts is a work of strangeness and alienation, but also a work in which a light of redemption is sought - a rehabilitation in the human character and the healing power of 'nature'.