Anne Kellas

Anne Kellas has lived in Hobart for nearly 22 years, dividing her time between poetry and youth research (as Anne Hugo). Her early poetry was published in South Africa and the USA, and from the 90s it's appeared in various Australian and online literary magazines. She's currently working on a third book of poetry, assisted by her first Australia Council grant, and on a libretto. She coedits The Write Stuff and the blog, North of the latte line, and is editor of Youth Field Xpress.

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Anne writes...

When I first saw Penny Jerrim's striking linocuts, featuring minute endangered animals, I felt sure they didn't need my poems as 'labels': they stand alone, in all their strong fragility. I decided to trust the subconscious to prompt me to respond in a general way to the feeling behind the art and science of the subject matter. I tried to allow space for that to happen in the poems, underground as it were. As Penny's work consists of several discrete images, I have built small but independent poems to accompany the linocuts as a set, ending with one poem as a response to the project as a whole. Six of the small poems needed to be suitable for the face of a dice, and working in 3-D space lead me to think of also presenting the poems as ribbons of colour, stripped of line breaks and hand-written, pouring out of a glass object, things to be handled and, hopefully, read.

Read Anne's poems for Endangered.

. . .Read more poems by Anne Kellas on her website, The Write Stuff or buy her books, Poems from Mt Moono (1989; available from the author) or Isolated States, (2001; available from Tim Thorne's Cornford Press, 6 Salisbury Crescent, Launceston, Tasmania 7250.)