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S.K. Kelen
Photo by Russell Kelen
S.K. Kelen (b.1956) won the Poetry Australia Farmers’ Poetry Prize for Australians under 18 in 1973. He teaches creative writing and poetry and lives mostly in Canberra. In 1996 Kelen was Visiting Professor of Writing at the University of South Dakota; in 1998 was Asialink Writer-in-residence in Vietnam; and was the recipient of the ACT Chief Minister’s Creative Arts Fellowship for 2000 and the 2001 Capital Arts Patrons Award. His volumes of poetry include Atomic Ballet (Hale & Iremonger, 1991), Dingo Sky (HarperCollins/ Angus and Robertson, 1993), Trans-Sumatran Highway and other poems (Polonius, 1995), Dragon Rising (The Gioi, 1998), Shimmerings (Five Islands Press, 2000), and Goddess of Mercy (Brandl & Schlesinger, 2002). Shimmerings was shortlisted for the 2002 SA Festival Awards. He is currently living on an Australia Council Grant writing new poems and completing his PhD.
Click the PDF icon at left to download a 37-page Adobe Acrobat PDF file containing a selection of this poet’s poems. These files are free to read, but they are copyright, read-only and not printable. You need the free Adobe Reader program (or a similar program) installed on your computer to view this file: Download the free Adobe Reader program.
[Interview] S.K.Kelen in conversation with Australian poet Adam Aitken on S.K.Kelen’s visit to Vietnam: February, 2004. About seven printed pages.
Off-site you can follow these links for more information about S.K.Kelen:
Jacket 15 — Pam Brown reviews Shimmerings, by S.K. Kelen
Jacket 15 — S.K.Kelen: poem: Kafka Dog begins a Voyage to Realms Beyond
http://poetry.poetryx.com/poets/43/ — Twenty-six poems by S.K.Kelen on the Poetry X site
http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=Content&pa=list_pages_categories&cid=54 — Nine poems and a bio note on the Fiera Lingue site
http://april.edu.au/kelen-s-k/index.shtml