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In the Shade of
the Shady Tree
Also by John Kinsella
POEMS
Divine Comedy: Journeys through a Regional Geography
The New Arcadia
Doppler Effect
Peripheral Light
The Hierarchy of Sheep
Zone
Visitants
The Benefaction
The Hunt
Poems 1980–1994
Graphology
Lightning Tree
The Undertow
The Radnoti Poems
The Silo: A Pastoral Symphony
Erratum/Frame(d)
Syzygy
Full Fathom Five
Eschatologies
Night Parrots
FICTION
Grappling Eros
Genre
Conspiracies (with Tracy Ryan)
Morpheus
Post-Colonial
DRAMA
Divinations: Four Plays
Comus: A Dialogic Masque
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
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NONFICTION
Disclosed Poetics: Beyond Landscape and Lyricism
Contrary Rhetoric: Lectures on Landscape and Language
STORIES OF WHEATBELT AUSTRALIA
John Kinsella
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kinsella, John, 1963–
In the shade of the shady tree : stories of wheatbelt Australia / John Kinsella.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-8040-1137-2 (hc : acid-free paper)
1. Western Australia—Fiction. I. Title.
PR9619.3.K55I5 2012
823'.914—dc22
2011043285
for Tracy, as always
A journey through the West
Australian wheatbelt and adjacent
southern areas: from north to south.
The author wishes to acknowledge
the traditional owners and
custodians of the land he writes: the
Yamatji and Nyungar peoples.
contents
The Fireball (Geraldton/Greenough)
