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Michael Dransfield: a Retrospective

Michael Dransfield: a Retrospective

A Retrospective

by John Kinsella
Paperback
Publication Date: 06/05/2002

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This is the first publication of Michael Dransfield selected poems, gathered from every book in his relatively considerable output. They were chosen by poet and critic John Kinsella, whose lively Introduction positions this indelible Australian poet at an international level.

Always controversial, poet Michael Dransfield's life story has tended to obscure his talent and achievement. Tales of drugs, sexual ambiguity and mythical and ancestral kingdoms have become iconic in the story of Michael Dransfield. However, he was much more. Visionary, poet-ecologist, minstrel, a writer of remarkable dexterity and versatility, he published four collections in three years and another three appeared after his death at 24. While never simply a young poet of his age - the late 60s and early 70s - he was connected to the popular culture of his time and place. He intended to change the world, and believed in the power of his own voice. Linguistically innovative and ahead of his time in so many ways, he also looked back. He was undoubtedly one of the great poets writing in English in his era, whose resonances are increasingly pertinent. Dransfield links the innovations of late twentieth-century Australian poetry with that revolutionary implosion of Ern Malley.
ISBN:
9780702232985
9780702232985
Category:
Poetry by individual poets
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
06-05-2002
Language:
English
Publisher:
University of Queensland Press
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
96
Dimensions (mm):
199x131x10mm
Weight:
0.12kg
John Kinsella

John Kinsella's most recent volumes of poetry are Sack and Drowning in Wheat: Selected Poems His collection, Jam Tree Gully (WW Norton, 2012), won the 2013 Prime Minister's Award for Poetry.

His volume of stories In the Shade of the Shady Tree (Ohio University Press, 2012) was shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award. Tide, a collection of stories, was published by Transit Lounge in 2013. Crow's Breath (Transit Lounge, 2015) was shortlisted for WA Premier's Book Awards Fiction Prize 2016.

He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, a Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia, and Professor of Sustainability and Literature at Curtin University.

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