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- Afternoon
(Famous Reporter no.26: December, 2002)
- Everything (the bowed-out scrape and dust bowl
of the country ...)
(Famous Reporter no.24, Dec. 2001)
Her work has appeared in Australian
magazines such as Poetry Australia, Blue Dog,
Blue Giraffe, LiNQ, Quadrant, Island, Westerly, Imago,
Studio, Going Down Swinging, Outrider, Famous Reporter, Mattoid, etc.
and more recently in online magazines and chapbooks
such as RePUBlic readings 5, 6, 8 (featured
poet) and 9, and Blue Giraffe.
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" ...When
I was leaving, Lionel Abrahams said to me no, you
should not go, because if you leave, you will lose
the very thing that feeds your poetry, and he quoted
me some words from [South African writer] Es'kia
Mphalele. I don't have the exact quote, but it is
something like,
"The self-exiled suffers more than
loss of self or context; your words become imageless,
and only the idea remains."
Those words, all these years, have been like
a large road sign for me: I write to keep the images.
That's in essence what I try to do with my writing."
(Anne Kellas, in
conversation with Ivan Vladislavich on the
ABSA/LitNet Chain.) |
Biographical
notes |
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Her most
recent poetry can be read online as part of the Endangered,
Drawing the line art exhibition (February/March
2008).
She's currently working on a third book of poetry,
assisted by her first Australia Council grant, and
on a libretto. She coedits The
Write Stuff along with Giles Hugo, and runs the North
of the Latte Line literary blog. |
Interviews |
'A career
spanning two continents: Anne Kellas, Poet: South Africa's
loss, Tasmania's gain', in Forty
Degrees South issue n.22, October 2001:
pp.68-69.
Out of Africa, interview by Margaretta Pos,
in The Mercury, Saturday 1 November 2001. |
Books |
- Isolated
States, her second book, was
written with support from an Arts Tasmania grant
in 1993 and was published in 2001 by Cornford
Press.
" In miniature this book takes up the kind of apocalyptic vision of Doris
Lessing..." (Kevin Brophy, University of Melbourne, review in Famous
Reporter, Dec. 2001.)
- Poems from Mt Moono was
published in 1989 by Hippogriff Press, Johannesburg.
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Anthologies |
Anne's
work appeared in the following South African anthologies:
- River of Verse (Back River Press,
Tasmania) edited by Helen Gee
- A
Writer in Stone
edited by Graeme Friedman & Roy
Blumenthal, David Philip Publishers, Cape Town, 1998;
ISBN 0 86486 428 0
- Like a House on Fire: Contemporary
Women's Writing, Art and Photography. COSAW
Women's Collective, Johannesburg, COSAW, 1994.
- Columbia Magazine A South African
Sampler, edited by Daniel Lawrence and Nadine Gordimer
(Columbia Magazine n.10, 1986, Supplement)
Columbia University, New York.
- Moorilla
Mosaic, Contemporary Tasmanian Writing edited
by Robyn Mathison and Lyn Reeves, 2000
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Articles
and reviews by Anne Kellas |
Reviews
Articles:
The
State of writing in South Africa;1995 (on The Write
Stuff web site; abbreviated in in the
article, 'Writing and White-Wash in the New South Africa'
(Famous Reporter no.10, Nov.1994).
Interviewing writers:
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