Audiobook
Liquid Amber Press released the audiobook version of Ways to Say Goodbye in 2024. Here’s a sample:https://liquidamberpress.com.au/travelling-to-my-mother-last-century/ Narrated by the author, this audiobook is also available on Audible, Spotify and many other audiobook platforms.
Ways to Say Goodbye
Winner of the People’s Choice Award in the Tim Thorne Prize for poetry – in the 2025 Tasmanian Literary Awards.Published in 2023 by Liquid Amber Press (in print, digital and audiobook formats). Sample poems from this collectionAvailable from: Liquid Amber Press (Melbourne)Also see launch speeches | sample poems NICE THINGS PEOPLE HAVE SAID “The allusiveness…
The White Room Poems
Shortlisted for the 2017 Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Awards. Published by Walleah Press in 2015.ISBN 9761877010224Cover design, Merridy PughCover image, Giles Hugo. Sample poems from this collection It is difficult for a poet to learn from Paul Celan and remain a poet. André du Bouchet is one, and Anne Kellas is another. It is perhaps even…
Poems from Mt Moono
Published in 1989 by Hippogriff Press, JohannesburgISBN: 0 620140 11 9 Available from the author. “Contemplating emigration was like thinking about going to the moon. ‘Mt Moono’ began as an imaginary concept before I came to Australia. Maybe that process has not quite finished and I am always going to Mt Moono …” Sample poems…
Isolated States
Isolated States was published in 2001 by Tim Thorne’s Cornford Press ISBN 0957756569(out of print). It was written with the support of a 1994 Arts Tasmania grant. “[These] poems are of the sheerest blue: large, clear, bright visions” – Chris Mansell “In miniature this book takes up the kind of apocalyptic vision of Doris Lessing.”…
The Netted Air
The Netted Air is a chapbook, published in the Picaro Poets series, issued in 2019. It contains a selection of poems from Poems from Mt Moono, Isolated States and The White Room Poems. “A small but potent volume … Almost unfailingly in her poetry, Anne Kellas declares nothing and suggests everything…” – Sarah Day in…