AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS & WRITERS FOR PEACE
The Peace Snow by Anne Kellas
[Above] Photo of Anne Kellas by Giles Hugo, 2001.
Anne Kellas
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The Peace Snow
Moving towards Christmas, Afghanistan 2001
The snow falls somehow differently now,
not on the foothills reshaped by the agriculture of war,
not on the city or the plains,
not on the hilltops,
but on these machines flying low,
snow filling up their wings,
their motors, their landing gear
completely blinded and bound
by the soft wafers
- the peace snow
dulling the bullets
weighing down the bombs
too heavy to fall to their manufacturers' instructions.
Wayward now,
in a blizzard -
not snow,
not peace - |
About the Poet Anne Kellas
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Born near Johannesburg in South Africa, Anne Kellas grew up under an apartheid regime. Her work was first published in 1979 when she belonged to a group of writers known as the "Circle of Eight" who met as friends at the home of poet and publisher Lionel Abrahams. Shortly after the first State of Emergency was declared, she and her husband, journalist Giles Hugo and their two children left South Africa for Australia. They live in Tasmania where Anne works in on-line publishing. She is co-editor with Giles Hugo of the e-journal, The Write Stuff, and is one of the poetry reviewers for famous reporter. Her work has been published in journals in South Africa, the USA and Australia. Kellas's work is also featured in the following anthologies: Moorilla Mosaic, Hobart: Bumble Bee Books, 2000 (an anthology of 25 Tasmanian poets); and in the following overseas anthologies: A writer in stone: South African writers celebrate the 70th birthday of Lionel Abrahams, Cape Town: David Philip, 1998, Like a house on fire: Contemporary women's writing and art from South Africa, Cape Town, COSAW (Congress of South African Writers), 1994, Columbia magazine,' University of Columbia, New York 1986 special supplement on South African writing edited by Nadine Gordimer (issue n.10, 1986). |
[Above] Photo of Anne Kellas by Giles Hugo, 2001.
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