John Kinsella is the author of more than thirty books whose prizes and awards include The Grace Leven Poetry Prize, John Bray Award for Poetry from The Adelaide Festival, and Senior Fellowships from the Literature Board of The Australia Council. Poems 1980-1994 and The Hunt (a Poetry Book Society Recommendation) were published in 1998 by Bloodaxe, UK. He is Editor of the international literary journal Salt. His poetry appears in Smartish Pace, Issue 12.