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

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Early life

Kate Lilley was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1960 and moved to Sydney with her family. She is the daughter of writers Dorothy Hewett and Merv Lilley, and sister of Rozanna Lilley, Joe Flood, Michael Flood and Tom Flood. [1] The sisters have claimed that they were sexually assaulted by various men who visited the family home in the 1970s. [2] [3]

She published her first poem at the age of 14, and the following year in 1977 she won the Artlook-Shell Award, against a field of 500 entrants. [4]

After studying at the University of Sydney, she completed a PhD at University of London on masculine elegy, and from 1986 to 1989 was a postdoctoral Research Fellow at St Hilda's College, Oxford working on Seventeenth Century Women's Writing. [5]

Career

Lilley is a scholar of queer, feminist textual theory and history, from 17th century women’s writing to contemporary poetry and poetics. She edited The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish (Penguin Classics, 1994). [6]

She published Versary, [7] her first volume of poems, in 2002; Ladylike [8] in 2012; and Tilt in 2018. [9] In 2010 she edited Selected Poems of Dorothy Hewett for UWA Press. [10]

Lilley had a "featured cameo" as Vera Newby in the film The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith . [11]

She has been an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Sydney, where she directed the Creative Writing program from 2013 to 2021. She is now a 'poet-scholar at large' and a poetry editor of Southerly . [12]

Awards and recognition

Works

Poetry

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References

  1. 1 2 "Kate Lilley". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
  2. ↑ Nichols, Claire (21 June 2018). "How should we recast Dorothy Hewett in the age of #MeToo?". ABC News. Retrieved 17 July 2024.
  3. ↑ Carmody, Broede (11 June 2012). "Dorothy Hewett's daughters say grown men preyed on them as children". smh.com.au . Retrieved 17 July 2024.
  4. ↑ "Poetry prize to girl, 16". The Age. 6 April 1977. p. 2.
  5. ↑ "Kate Lilley". www.poetryinternational.com. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
  6. ↑ https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/260930/the-blazing-world-and-other-writings-by-margaret-cavendish/9780140433722/ The Blazing World and Other Writings by Margaret Cavendish
  7. ↑ http://jacketmagazine.com/18/wilk-lilley.html Unmodern Verse: John Wilkinson reviews Versary, by Kate Lilley
  8. ↑ http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/what-it-means-to-be-a-woman-20120711-21wx1.html What it means to be a woman: Gig Ryan reviews Ladylike, by Kate Lilley
  9. ↑ "Tilt by Kate Lilley | Review Essay by Ali Jane Smith". Sydney Review of Books. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
  10. ↑ https://uwap.uwa.edu.au/products/selected-poems-of-dorothy-hewett Selected Poems of Dorothy Hewett
  11. ↑ "Katie Lilley". IMDb .
  12. ↑ "Kate Lilley, Tilt". Vagabond Press. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
  13. ↑ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2019". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
  14. ↑ "Poetry and memoir win at Victorian Premier's Literary Awards".
  15. ↑ Lilley, Kate (2002), Versary (1st. ed.), Salt, ISBN   978-1-876857-15-8
  16. ↑ "Chapbook | Jacket2". jacket2.org. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
  17. ↑ "Bev Braune Reviews Kate Lilley". 31 March 2013.
  18. ↑ Brown, Pam (2012), "[Review of Lilley, Kate. Ladylike (2012)]", Southerly, 72 (1): 222–227, ISBN   978-1-921556-35-7, ISSN   0038-3732
  19. ↑ Lilley, Kate (20 April 2018), "Tilt", Cultural Studies Review, UTS ePRESS, ISSN   1446-8123
  20. ↑ "Tilt by Kate Lilley | Review Essay by Ali Jane Smith". Sydney Review of Books. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
  21. ↑ Hewett, Dorothy; Lilley, Kate (2010), Selected Poems of Dorothy Hewett, UWA Publishing, ISBN   978-1-74258-269-6
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