Christopher (Kit) Kelen
Kit Kelen’s new volume of poetry in English, Book of Mother, is forthcoming from Puncher & Wattmann.
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Christopher (Kit) Kelen is a poet and painter, resident in the Myall Lakes of NSW. Published widely since the seventies, he has a dozen full length collections in English as well as translated books of poetry in Chinese, Portuguese, French, Italian, Spanish, Indonesian, Swedish, Norwegian, and Filipino. He is Emeritus Professor at the University of Macau, where he taught for many years. Kit’s new volume of poetry in English, Book of Mother, is forthcoming from Puncher & Wattmann.
In 2017, he was shortlisted twice for the Montreal Poetry Prize and won the Local Award in the Newcastle Poetry Prize. That same year, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Malmo, in Sweden. Literary editor for Postcolonial Text and Series Editor for Flying Islands Pocket Poets Series, Kit has mentored many poets and translators from various parts of the world and run several online communities of practice in poetry. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of NSW.