Limbo: The Fourth Canticle by John Kinsella refugee broken song'

broken song'

- John McCullough

yet manifesting a deep commitment to remain a witness to the contemporary world

and a clarion call to halt the loss of birds from land

Works of visual power exchange speech with poems written in response to them

Limbo: The Fourth Canticle by John Kinsella refugee broken song'Limbo: The Fourth Canticle is John Kinsella's blazing coda to Dante, recasting the first canticle of The Divine Comedy inside the scorched, mined and surveilled landscapes of contemporary Western Australia. In these thirty four cantos, with their mirroring sub cantos and subscripts, Limbo is no quiet vestibule. It is a wheatbelt of burned jarrah and rock, a valley of blue tongue skinks, galahs and black cockatoos, threaded through with grain trains,