Published in Overland Issue 221 Summer 2015 · Uncategorized Madingley John Kinsella I hear no birds at night through thick concrete and the lack is critical. But walking out beyond M road and A roads, to a church burial ground beneath yews and cedars, a jay is loud with presence and moves freely across the grass, between stones. I close my eyes hard to make night speak out of sunlight. John Kinsella John Kinsella’s collected poems have been published by UWAP as The Ascension of Sheep (2022), Harsh Hakea (2023) and Spirals (early 2024). His verse novel Cellnight appeared with Transit Lounge in 2023, and his anti-epic, Argonautica Inlandica, with Vagabond (2023). A recent critical work is Legibility: An Anti-fascist Poetics (Palgrave, 2022). More by John Kinsella › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays 26 July 202426 July 2024 · Poetry Song of despair πO A new poem by πO 24 July 202424 July 2024 · pop culture Swamp monster of the rock’n’roll de/generation Rock Chugg In the 1980s, a horrible time was had by all. Yet the assorted Australian talent for making the best of a bad thing, gave us the most important and characteristic popular music genre, locals have (n)ever known.
