Tracy Ryan's new Youtube channel Language Learning Life

By Tracy

In the last few days I've revived my till-now inactive Youtube channel now going by the title of Language Learning Life. 

It will feature discussions of language learning (French, German, Italian, Irish/Gaelic and more), reviews of resources for learning particular languages, and posts about translation.

Language studies and literature being on a continuum, there will also be literary items arising from our daily lives — past & future events, short readings including poetry from John Kinsella and Tim Kinsella as well as myself.

It's likely I'll upload quite regularly so don't forget to check back if these topics interest you.

Hope to see you on Language Learning Life... and if you like it, please subscribe!

Some Recent Poetry

Have been reading a lot of excellent new poetry. Some of my recent favourites include Kwame Dawes' Sturge Town, Alan Fyfe's G-d, Sleep, and Chaos and Camille Ralphs' After You Were, I Am. Here's a couple of pics Tracy took of me reading from After You Were, I Am excitedly to the birds, trees, grass and water at Deep Water Point on the Djarlgarro Beeliar in Boorloo/Perth. Here, I am specifically reading Ralph's brilliant 'kyrie eleison' and vocalising its soundscape/word-play/deconstructive ironies, and also its theological echoes. Ralphs is a sculptor of poems with intense technical skill as well as slant insights.

And I'd also like to mention our son Tim's first collection of poetry, Wingbeat, which is full of the natural world and David Lynch.

    John Kinsella

Celebrating John Kinsella's Collected Poems (UWAP) at City of Perth Library last night

By Tracy

In addition to John himself, participating readers & brilliant poets were: Alan Fyfe, Caitlin Maling, Cass Lynch, Emily Sun, Scott-Patrick Mitchell, Siobhan Hodge & Tim Kinsella — with introductory talks by Tony Hughes d'Aeth and Lakshmi Kanchi.

Not everyone who took part is shown here — some of my images didn't come up as I'd hoped! Some were taken by me, others by Wendy Kinsella.

Thanks to UWA Publishing, City of Perth Library, WA Poets... and many others.

John Kinsella

Scott-Patrick Mitchell

John with Will Yeoman

Part of the audience

Mar Bucknell with John Kinsella, Rohit Kanchi

Tony Hughes d'Aeth

Lakshmi Kanchi & audience

Cass Lynch & audience

Emily Sun speaks

Tim Kinsella reads

John Kinsella speaks

Tim Kinsella reading

Scott-Patrick Mitchell speaks

Emily Sun

Caitlin Maling

Lakshmi Kanchi

Tim Kinsella

Tracy Ryan

Peter Wheeler in foreground, Mar Bucknell & Rohit Kanchi behind

John Kinsella, Lakshmi Kanchi, Steve Mickler

Lakshmi Kanchi & John Kinsella

Tony Hughes d'Aeth

Photos of Urs Jaeggi and the Kinsella/Ryan Family Zurich Late January, 2020

    Posted by John Kinsella

Sometime before the lockdown period (late January, 2020), on a special day when Tracy and Tim met up with Urs Jaeggi in Zurich and he and I spent the afternoon working in the James Joyce Foundation. We later all caught up at the Orell Füssli bookshop where these photos were taken:

John and Urs

Tim, John, Urs

Tracy and Urs