Kate Lilley

Kate Lilley. Photo by John Tranter. Courtesy Jacket.

Kate Lilley (born 1960) is a contemporary Australian poet and academic.

Life

Youth

Kate Lilley was born in Perth, Western Australia and moved to Sydney with her family. She is the daughter of writers Dorothy Hewett and Merv Lilley.

After studying at the University of Sydney she completed a Ph.D. at University of London on masculine elegy.

Lilley then spent four years at the University of Oxford as a Junior Research Fellow. In 1990 she returned to Australia, where she is an associate professor of English at the University of Sydney.

Lilley published her first volume of poems, Versary, in 2002.

Lilley edited The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish (Penguin Classics, 1994). In 2010 she edited Dorothy Hewett's Selected Poems for UWA Press.

Lilley has a "featured cameo" as Vera Newby in the film The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith.

Publications

Poetry

• Versary. Applecross, WA: Salt, 2002.
• Round Vienna (chapbook). Vagabond Press, 2011.
• Ladylike. Crawley, WA: UWA Publishing, 2012.

Edited

• Margaret Cavendish, The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World, and other writings. Lonon: William Pickering, 1992; New York: New York University Press, 1992;
  • also published as The Blazing World, and other writings. London & New York: Penguin, 2004.
• Dorothy Hewett, Selected Poems. Crawley, WA: UWA Publishing, 2010.

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.

See also

The Muses of Poetry - Genie by Kate Lilley

• List of Australian poets

References

• Kate Lilley Contents page

External links

Poems

• 2 short poems at Snorkel Magazine
• Poet's Sampler: Kate Lilley in the Boston Review (7 poems)
• Kate Lilley at PoemHunter (7 poems)
• Kate Lilley (1960 – ) in the Australian Poetry Library (54 poems)

Prose

• "This L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E", Jacket

About

• [1] Staff Profile
• Kate Lilley at Austlit
• Kate Lilley: Sydney Poet an interview