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This collection comprises correspondence, personal papers, journals, drafts of poems, art work associated with Kinsella’s published volume ‘Night parrots’, and poems submitted to the literary journal ‘Salt’. Within Kinsella’s handwritten journals are the original ‘drawing poems’ with some appearing in his associated published ‘Saussure's Kaleidoscope: Graphology Drawing Poems‘ 2021). Other published works include a CD Resource cd ‘22’ produced by writingWA, ‘Brimstone: a book of villanelles’, ‘Dislocations: The Innovative poems of Paul Muldoon’, ‘Musical Dante’, and ‘Hotel Impossible’. Correspondents of family and friends, include Robert Adamson, Dorothy Porter, Peter Porter, Fay Zwicky, Randolph Stow, Alex Miller, Alison Croggin, Sarah Day, Galway Kinnell, Les Murray and David Brooks, and literary and magazine editors. The collection also comprises journals, interviews with and by Kinsella, material relating to professional teaching, poetry readings and lectures, photographs and printed material. The drafts are of poems for his published volumes, including ‘The frozen sea’ (1983), ‘The book of two faces’(1989), ‘Night parrots’ (1989), ‘Eschatologies’ (1991), ‘Syzygy’ (1993), ’Full fathom five’ (1993), ‘False Claims of Colonial Thieves’ (2018), and ‘Drowning in wheat’ (2004), and for contributions to literary journals and magazines. Material includes proofs and other written works by Charmaine Papertalk Green, Kwame Dawes, Kate Jarman. There are two artworks by Karl Wiebke gifted to John Kinsella, for launching Wiebke's exhibition.
John Kinsella has written and edited more than thirty books whose many prizes and awards include The Grace Leven Poetry Prize, the John Bray Award for Poetry from The Adelaide Festival, The Age Poetry Book of The Year Award, The Western Australian Premier's Prize for Poetry (twice), a Young Australian Creative Fellowship from the former Prime Minister of Australia, Paul Keating, and senior Fellowships from the Literature Board of The Australia Council. His Poems 1980 - 1994 and volume of poetry The Hunt (a Poetry Book Society Recommendation) were published in May 1998 by Bloodaxe in the UK and USA, and Visitants (Bloodaxe, 1999) has recently been released. He is the editor of the international literary journal Salt, a Consultant Editor to Westerly (CSAL, University of Western Australia), Cambridge correspondent for Overland (Melbourne, Australia), co-editor of the British literary journal Stand, and International Editor of the American journal The Kenyon Review. John Kinsella was made a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, in 1997, and has been appointed the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College (USA) for 2001. He is also an Adjunct Professor of English at Edith Cowan University, Perth.
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