14x7 cm, 28 pages, 250 gsm white Strata card cover,  sewn with azure twist.  Cover shows a picture of Dolly the sheep looking intriguingly cheerful.  ISBN 1 903090 02 4  Ordering Information See below for extract.  Visit John Kinsella's author page at the Fremantle Arts Centre website. Click here for the Salt Publishing website.

from Sheep Dip:

The hand-writing is recognisably his
though deterioration is obvious.
 

The rage is in the agricultural
absence of the oik and redneck
blustering with feigned indifference
as the sun explodes and deflates

this sunset reckoned
spectacular, the trash
of an outer vocabulary
for where it’s tough

there’s no locale and leisure
only drives against its place
which is why nature has to be
forced back onto itself; the crazy

raddling is furious and takes it out
on those nearabouts, inside
it’s linear but without,
they tread on egg shells

or hang on tenterhooks
like the madly butchered meat
offcut and tenderised
by pounding against the collective

vegetarian face of the altering
markets, they say you can
no longer read yourself, narratology
skewed as if the church warden is everything

and knows better in a gendered district,
from school to work
when there’s a bloody harvest
to be brought in and the skies all baled up

and glowering, and you call
that pretty, as if you’d paint
the fucking thing, as if a brothel keeper
inside my head should take shorthand