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The Divine Comedy--Inferno Dante Alighieri (trans Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) Inferno: Canto I Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway [...]

AS A SMALL CHILD 1 ONCE RAN AWAY FROM MY HOME at 152 Bateman Road, Mount Pleasant, Perth. It seemed like a long way, and it seemed like forever, but [...]

IT MIGHT SEEM LIKE A STRANGE, DISCONTINUOUS TRAIL to weave, to move from the poetry of Michael Dransfield to the libretto of Gotterdammerung via Western Australian literature and the city [...]

Lenny I folded the letter and placed it on top of my father's. I was at a loss for words. I just sat there and stared into space. What the [...]

GENRE IS CATEGORY--CATEGORY OF RECOGNITION. IT might be a poem opposing prose fiction, a play opposing the essay. It might be a romance opposing a war novel. It is about [...]

The poem "The Einsiedeln GM Eclogues: 1" by John Kinsella is presented. First Line: Midas, you've a vested interest; Last Line: Limiting characters.

The Burning of the Hay Stacks Laved in the flame as in a Sacrament ... --Thomas Merton There was a rash of burnings that autumn--the arson squad said circumstances were [...]

The poem “Red Shed Shrine" by John Kinsella is presented. First Line: Growth of trees is measured against the red shed, Last Line: is fired up, thirsty heart of the shed.

The poem “Hammerhead" by John Kinsella is presented. First Line: I ask my mother, divorced from my father; Last Line: using whatever tools came to hand.

The short story "The Plough Star and the Fence" by John Kinsella is presented.