Limbo: The Fourth Canticle by John Kinsella Peter Sirr PBS Wild Card Spring 2021

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Limbo: The Fourth Canticle by John Kinsella Peter Sirr PBS Wild Card Spring 2021Limbo: 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,