Christopher (Kit) Kelen
Christopher (Kit) Kelen is a well known Australian poet, scholar and
visual artist, and Professor of English at the University of Macau, where he
has taught Creative Writing and Literature for the last sixteen years. Volumes
of his poetry have been published in Chinese, Portuguese, French, Italian,
Swedish, Indonesian and Filipino languages. Japanese and Spanish collections
are currently in preparation. The most recent of Kit Kelen’s dozen English
language poetry books is Scavengers
Season, published by Puncher and Wattman in 2014. Kelen's most recent solo
painting exhibitions were Pictures of
Nothing at All at the Macao Museum of Art (2014) and Next Stop is the
Stars at the Rui Cunha Insitute in Macao (2015). Kelen has also had solo
exhibitions in Australia, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. For the last several
years Kelen has been facilitating the translation of Chinese poetry into
English and Australian poets into Chinese, projects which have so far produced
a dozen large scale bilingual anthologies. Kelen has published two scholarly
volumes about poetry: Poetry,
Consciousness, Community (Rodopi 2009) and City of Poets – Exploring Macao Poetry Today (ASM, 2009). Kelen’s
theoretical study of national songs, Anthem
Quality was published in 2014 by Intellect Press in the UK and the
University of Chicago Press. Kit Kelen is the Editor of the new cross-arts
international on-line journal the
wonderbook and is Literary Editor for Postcolonial Text. In 2016 he is co-ordinating Project 366, a daily on-line collaboration
of poets and artists.
Christopher (Kit) Kelen is a well known Australian poet, scholar and
visual artist, and Professor of English at the University of Macau, where he
has taught Creative Writing and Literature for the last sixteen years. Volumes
of his poetry have been published in Chinese, Portuguese, French, Italian,
Swedish, Indonesian and Filipino languages. Japanese and Spanish collections
are currently in preparation. The most recent of Kit Kelen’s dozen English
language poetry books is Scavengers
Season, published by Puncher and Wattman in 2014. Kelen's most recent solo
painting exhibitions were Pictures of
Nothing at All at the Macao Museum of Art (2014) and Next Stop is the
Stars at the Rui Cunha Insitute in Macao (2015). Kelen has also had solo
exhibitions in Australia, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. For the last several
years Kelen has been facilitating the translation of Chinese poetry into
English and Australian poets into Chinese, projects which have so far produced
a dozen large scale bilingual anthologies. Kelen has published two scholarly
volumes about poetry: Poetry,
Consciousness, Community (Rodopi 2009) and City of Poets – Exploring Macao Poetry Today (ASM, 2009). Kelen’s
theoretical study of national songs, Anthem
Quality was published in 2014 by Intellect Press in the UK and the
University of Chicago Press. Kit Kelen is the Editor of the new cross-arts
international on-line journal the
wonderbook and is Literary Editor for Postcolonial Text. In 2016 he is co-ordinating Project 366, a daily on-line collaboration
of poets and artists. 
