Giles Hugo
Prof. Patrick McGorry of headspace and Orygen Youth Health will launch The White Room Poems by Anne Kellas at …
Collected Works Bookshop
Nicholas Building, Level 1, 37 Swanston Street, Melbourne, Australia 3000
Anne’s 3rd collection of poetry, The White Room Poems, was released by Walleah Press in December 2015. Anne used to work in youth research and is absolutely delighted that Professor Patrick McGorry AO, former Australian of the Year and Executive Director of Orygen Youth Health – and founder of headspace – will be launching this book.
Reviewed in The Australian by Geoff Page on 13 Feb:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/australian-poetry-anne-kellas-robyn-rowland-frank-russo/news-story/6947a273762afe8ee5f10a5d1a78c353
“These are a mother’s poems to the son she has lost to ‘the softly drug’. How is it possible that they can be so beautiful and strong when they are so lost in this young man’s ‘cloud of unbeing’? These poems never flinch, but that makes them even more fragile. These poems never stop singing in speech but that does not lift them from their ‘stern night’. These poems press on into the reader’s heart, into anyone who has loved, into any parent who recognizes what this kind of loss might, just might, sound like if it was made into poetry.”
– Kevin Brophy
“Through the use of elliptical lines and concise, often surprising imagery, Kellas has forged a set of poems which interrogate both livelihood and language while remaining true to the lyric groundswell from which they spring. Her unerring focus on place and experience is simultaneously precise and visionary, and makes The White Room Poems a reading experience to savour.”
– Kelwyn Sole
“Anne Kellas shapes barely audible sounds of grief into bell-like clarity. This book would shake a mountain to its core.”
– Ivy Alvarez
ALL WELCOME ! Collected Works 1/37 Swanston St Melbourne
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