Christopher Kelen
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Professor Christopher (Kit) Kelen
Kelen is the author of fourteen volumes of poetry and two novels. He has been published widely since the mid-1970s and in 1988 won an ABA/ABC bicentennial award with his poem "Views from Pinchgut".[1]
In 1992, "The Naming of the Harbour and the Trees" won an
For many years, Kelen taught Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Macau.[3] As of 2018, he lived mainly on Worimi country on the NSW north coast.[4]
Kelen has published several book-length scholarly works about poetry, including Poetry, Consciousness and Community (2009), City of Poets (2009), Anthem Quality (2014) and Children, Animals and Poetry - Poetics and Ethics of Anthropomorphism (2022).
Kelen was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales in 2019.[5]
Bibliography
Poetry
- The Naming of the Harbour and the Trees (1992)
- Green Lizard Manifesto (1997)
- Möbius (1998)
- Republics (2000)
- New Territories (2003)
- Eight Days in Lhasa (2006)
- A Map of the Seasons (2006)
- Dredging the Delta (2007)
- After Meng Jiao (2008)
- China Years (2011)
- Pictures of Nothing at All (2014)
- Scavengers' Season (2014)
- As to the Ladders of Whichway (2015)
- A Pocket Kit (2) (2015)
- Poor Man's Coat (2018)
- Book of Mother (2022)
- Bung Mazes (2022)
Novels
- Punk's Travels (1980)
- A Wager with the Gods (2006)
References
- ^ Kelen, Christopher, AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource, 20 November 2007.
- ^ a b TextJournal Oct. 98
- ^ "Department of English - Prof. Christopher KELEN". University of Macau. Retrieved 27 January 2010.
- ^ About Kit Kelen, kitkelen.com, accessed 13-Nov-2020
- ^ "Fellows of the Royal Society of NSW (K)". Royal Society of New South Wales. Archived from the original on 2 April 2021. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
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