Biography
John Kinsella’s many books of poetry include Divine Comedy: Journeys Through a Regional Geography, Jam Tree Gully, Armour, and Drowning in Wheat: Selected Poems 1980-2015. His awards include the Judith Wright Calanthe Awards for Poetry (twice), the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry, the Prime Minister’s Award for Poetry, the Christopher Brennan Award for Poetry, and numerous others. In 2018, he received the Australian Centre Literary Awards – Wesley Michel Wright Prize in Poetry for On the Outskirts. He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, and Professor of Literature and Sustainability at Curtin University. He lives in the Western Australian wheatbelt.
