About the Author

John Kinsella's many volumes of poetry include the prize-winning collections Peripheral Light: New and Selected Poems and The New Arcadia. His collection of lectures on landscape and language, Contrary Rhetoric, has been published by Fremantle Press in conjunction with Edith Cowan University. Niall Lucy's books include Postmodern Literary Theory: An Introduction, A Derrida Dictionary and, with Steve Mickler, The War on Democracy: Conservative Opinion in the Australian Press.