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 collection
Available from: Liquid Amber Press (Melbourne)
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NICE THINGS PEOPLE HAVE SAID
“The allusiveness and artistry of Anne Kellas’s work is encyclopaedic. …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 … Kellas is a richly rewarding poet who merits the widest possible readership, as well as acclamation by the most discriminating readership.” [MICHAEL SHARKEY, reviewing Ways to Say Goodbye.
”Anne Kellas’ poems carry some of the enigmatic, wintry grace of a Wallace Stevens, but not his nervousness… “ (KEVIN BROPHY in his introduction to the book)
”Anne Kellas is a technically brilliant poet unafraid of exploring various forms, including abstract and ekphrastic poems, and confident of using beautiful and unusual language.” (Judge’s report in the 2025 shortlisting for the Tim Thorne Prize for Poetry).