John Kinsella is the author of over thirty books, including the critically acclaimed Jam Tree Gully and Firebreaks. He is a Fellow of Churchill College, University of Cambridge, and professor of literature and environment at Curtin University. In 2007 he received the Fellowship of Australian Writers Christopher Brennan Award for lifetime achievement in poetry. He lives at Jam Tree Gully in the Western Australian Wheatbelt.
A work of eco-activism...What gives this important book its edge is that Kinsella worries at-and about-the relationship between art and an endangered world...Kinsella is a celebrator of the natural world, a poet of wide horizons. -- Katie Kellaway - Guardian