unHistory: a poem cycle by Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella

Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella's fifth volume of dialogue in poems, unHistory, is a monumental record of our times, exploring history's undertones, personal, familial, and institutional resonances, and the relationship between public events and the literary imagination. It is an elegant enactment of friendship and memory, with poetry that has the fluidity of spontaneous response and the shapeliness and finesse of the most deeply considered work.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 450 pages
Publication date: 14 April 2022
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press Ltd

After completing four collections of dialogue in poems, Kwame Dawes in Nebraska (via Ghana and Jamaica) and John Kinsella in Western Australia, have produced a monumental fifth volume in four movements: unHistory.

unHistory is an essential record of our times, written by two world-leading poets who are acutely sensitive to the bracing global turmoil of the last five years. It is an exploration of history's undertones, its personal, familial, and institutional resonances, and the relationship between public events and the literary imagination. At the same time, it is an elegant enactment of friendship and memory. As in previous volumes, the marvel is poetry that has all the fluidity of spontaneous response and the shapeliness and finesse of the most deeply considered work written by two prolific and influential writers at the height of their poetic powers.

"What Dawes and Kinsella provide each other with is less a means of achieving perfect insight than of casting light on the others' blindnesses. Will Harris on Speak from Here to There "Kwame Dawes is one of the most important writers of his generation who has built a mighty and lasting body of work." Elizabeth Alexander "John Kinsella is one of Australia's most vivid, energetic, and stormy poets, a writer who turns to the natural world with a fierce light." Edward Hirsch, Washington Post

Dimension: 206 x 135 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781845235321