Kit Kelen
Christopher (Kit) Kelen has more than a dozen full-length collections in English as well as many translated books of poetry. He is the winner of the 2024 Newcastle Poetry Prize.
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Kit Kelen
Published widely since the seventies, Christopher (Kit) Kelen has more than a dozen full-length collections in English as well as translated books of poetry in Chinese (several), Portuguese (several), French, Italian, Spanish, Indonesian, Swedish, Norwegian, Filipino, Greek, Romanian and Esperanto. Kit’s latest volume of poetry in English is Book of Mother, published in 2022.
Kit has shortlisted for and won poetry prizes since the eighties (an ABC/ Bicentennial Award). In 2024 Kit Kelen was the winner of the Newcastle Poetry Prize.
Kit has had 10 solo painting and drawing exhibitions, in Australia, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Macao. His most recent was word & unword (2024) at the WordXimage gallery in Maitland.
Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Macau, where he taught for many years, Kit Kelen is also a Conjoint Professor at the University of Newcastle and a Fellow of the Royal Society of NSW. In 2017 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Malmö in Sweden. Series Editor for Flying Islands Pocket Poets Series (with now more than 100 volumes), Kit has mentored many poets and translators from various parts of the world. The Daily Kit is at thedailykitkelen.blogspot.com
Festival Events
BOOK LAUNCH: In Early Light by Kit Kelen
DATE March 28 TIME 1:30 pm WHEREWatt Space Gallery Book nowBY THE ARTIST
