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Christopher (Kit) Kelen is an Australian poet, scholar and painter, and Professor of English at the University of Macau, in south China, where he has taught Literature and Creative Writing for the last 17 years. Books of his poetry have been published in Chinese, Indonesian, Portuguese, French, Filipino, Swedish, Italian and Spanish. Kelen’s most recent English-language volume of poems is Scavengers Season (Puncher and Wattmann, 2014). His next collection, Poor Man’s Coat – Hardanger Poems, is forthcoming with UWAP.
This episode hosted by Shane Strange
Sound production by Samuel Byrnand
In this episode the panel ‘The Texture of Truth’ recorded at the Poetry on the Move festival held in Canberra in 2019. ‘A poet’s job’ writes John Berryman, ‘ is not to play fast and loose with the facts of this world’ Or is it? Can poetry be true? What kind of truth, if any, […]
Published 05/18/20
In this episode the panel ‘The Science of Poetry’ recorded at the Poetry on the Move festival held in Canberra in 2019. It’s a commonplace that science is interested in objective and provable facts, while poetry is subjective: charting human experience and sensation. But this view neglects the...
Published 05/12/20
In this episode the panel ‘What Should Poetry Be?’ recorded at the Poetry on the Move festival held in Canberra in 2019. Page, stage, rage or sage: there’s a lot of opinions on what poetry is and what it should be. Is it an oral art form or “patterned language”? Is it best heard, or […]
Published 05/12/20