Poetry

Four Poems

By John Kinsella | March 2, 2026

Curlew Irony in Bantry Harbour, Dead Man’s Fingers (Metamorphosis), Storm Petrels 2: inversions, Schull Dream of Parallel Lines with Les Murray

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John Kinsella is the author of more than seventy books of poetry, fiction, criticism, plays, edited works (including The Penguin Book of Australian Poetry), and collaborative works.

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