Ways to Say Goodbye: Poems by Anne Kellas, Liquid Amber Press 2023
“Conceive a world in which one is woken by silence, where Gruffalos hunt, where the moon is at half past day, where the light is starving, and where a dark river speaks to you. That is Anne Kellas's world in Ways To Say Goodbye, and it is one in which you will wish to live. “
– Kevin Hart
Ways to Say Goodbye:
Poems by Anne Kellas
Liquid Amber Press, Melbourne
August 2023
“The allusiveness and artistry of Anne Kellas's work is encyclopaedic. Ways to Say Goodbye creates a golden world of mature, wise, compassionate poems which meditate on the gulf between 'never' and 'eternity.' This book is a gift to her readers, a collection of individual works to shake the soul and mind and reveal the glory of a poet writing of the redemptive power of her art.” (MICHAEL SHARKEY, reviewing WAYS TO SAY GOODBYE
”Kellas is a richly rewarding poet who merits the widest possible readership, as well as acclamation by the most discriminating readership.” read more …
KEVIN BROPHY introduced Ways to Say Goodbye at the Liquid Amber Press zoom poetry reading on 14 September 2023
”Anne Kellas’ poems carry some of the enigmatic, wintry grace of a Wallace Stevens, but not his nervousness… “ read more
The White Room Poems
ISBN 9761877010224
Walleah Press, 2015
“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 more difficult for a poet to learn, as poet, from intense grief: The White Room Poems is a sanctuary where such grief is realized while also continuing to ache”
– Kevin Hart (University of Virginia).
Isolated States
ISBN 0957756569
Cornford Press, 2001
Writing out of her experience of life in England, Tasmania and her native South Africa, Kellas reveals with passion and grace both the loneliness of the exile in a strange land and the despair of those trapped in their own minds as exiles from the sanity of love."
– Margaret Scott
Poems from Mt Moono
ISBN 0620140119
Hippogriff Press, 1989
“Courage comes across as the true subject of her writing ... [Her poems] help us to identify the violence which permeates our lives in so many subtle and unsubtle forms. They show us strategies for survival”
– Robert Berold