Reviews of Ways to Say Goodbye
MICHAEL SHARKEY’S review of Ways to Say Goodbye appeared in Rochford Street Review n.37, August 2023. It casts a retrospective eye over Kellas’s earlier collections of poetry. Excerpts: “… I could hardly believe anyone in Australia could respond to personal catastrophe with such artistic intelligence, fortitude, and grace that this book reveals…“… tenderness … is…
Reviews of The White Room Poems
The White Room Poems was shortlisted for the Margaret Scott Prize in 2017. It was reviewed in The Australian by Geoff Page (13 Feb 2016), by Kevin Brophy, and by Chris Ringrose in Australian Poetry (n.16).GEOFF PAGE’s review reads in part: “Kellas has written what amounts to a “livre compose” expressing her grief following the…
Reviews of Isolated States
Kevin Brophy’s review of Isolated States appeared in famous reporter n.24, December 2001. Two weeks after the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers fell to rubble on the morning of 11 September 2001, I took my children to the Disney Studio film, A.I. (Artificial Intelligence). Towards the end of the film, set thousands of years in…
Other reviews of Isolated States
Colloquy (Monash University) issue 6, 2001 Red Room Project, review by Justin Lowe, 2002 Five Bells, December 2002; review by Margaret Bradstock Famous Reporter, n.25, December 2001, review by Kevin Brophy Thylazine, March 2003 40° South, no.23.
Reviews of Poems from Mt Moono
Poems from Mt Moono was published in South Africa three years after Kellas had moved to Australia. The South African poet Robert Berold reviewed the book in New Contrast in 1990 (pp.87-89) “Courage comes across as the true subject of her writing … (Her poems) help us to identify the violence which permeates our lives…