Poor Man's Coat by Kit Kelen - ISBN: 9781742589763
Paperback
“This collection marks another level of attentiveness in Kelen’s work. His poems have always delighted with their wordplay, cryptic lyricism and wry wisdoms. Now he moves closer still to the natural world that so absorbs him, close enough to smell its breath, to comprehend its agency.” - Judy Johnson

Poor Man's Coat

Hardanger Poems

  • Paperback

    100 pages

  • Release Date

    1 October 2018

Summary

lvik setting for the poems in this book is a sleepy little industrial town, set between the Hardanger Fjord and its own little mountain for climbing. Behind lvik the serious mountains go on forever, all the length of Norway, till there’s almost no more north. The town is brightly painted and decorated with laughter a children’s town, if you remember. The artists and the poets, the singers, the musicians they live in a fairytale house, where winter is always coming, even when it has arr…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781742589763
ISBN-10:1742589766
Author:Kit Kelen
Publisher:UWA Publishing
Imprint:UWAP
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:100
Release Date:1 October 2018
Weight:400g
Dimensions:210mm x 140mm
Series:UWAP Poetry
About The Author

Kit Kelen

Christopher (Kit) Kelen is a poet, painter and recovering academic, 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 and Filipino. In 2017, Kit was shortlisted twice for the Montreal Poetry Prize and won the Local Award in the Newcastle Poetry Prize. Emeritus Professor at the University of Macau, where he taught for many years, in 2017, Kit Kelen was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Malmö, in Sweden.

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