Insomnia by John Kinsella Nick Ascroft this selection

this selection

PBS Recommendation - Autumn 2016

The myth around him survived thanks to the inclusion of fifteen poems from Defense of the Idol in the groundbreaking anthology Antología de poesía chilena nueva from 1935

he was what Rilke called "exposed"

With poems from Amy Acre

Insomnia by John Kinsella Nick Ascroft this selectionThe Australian poet John Kinsellas vivid and urgent new collection addresses the crisis of being that currently afflicts us: Kinsella addresses a situation where the creations of the human imagination, the very means by which we extend our empathies into the world art, music and philosophy suddenly find themselves in a world that not only denies their importance, but can sometimes seem to have no use for them at all. In an attempt to find a still