Limbo: The Fourth Canticle by John Kinsella T S Eliot wild and true

wild and true

Valerie Bloom

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In My My My Life the author treats us to a cornucopia of existential titbits

Limbo: The Fourth Canticle by John Kinsella T S Eliot wild and trueLimbo: 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,