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Aileen Kelly's poetry has been widely published in Australia and elsewhere. Her first book, Coming up for Light (Pariah Press 1994, reprint available from the author), won the Mary Gilmore Award, and was shortlisted for the Anne Elder and Victorian Premier's awards. It also won the Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize. Aileen is deeply convinced that anyone who writes or wants to write poetry should be encouraged to do so, and she runs workshops designed to help people increase their skills to write the sort of poetry they want to, not what someone else thinks they should write. She reads poetry from USA, UK, Ireland and elsewhere, as well as Australian poets, and celebrates the fact that all of this influences her own poetry - she thinks that if you do not expose yourself to your contemporaries for fear of being influenced, you'll be influenced by the poetry you read as a child. |
