Kit Kelen

Christopher (Kit) Kelen is a well known Australian poet, scholar and visual artist, and a Professor at the University of Macau, where he has taught Literature and Creative Writing for the last thirteen years. Volumes of Kit Kelen’s poetry have been published in Chinese, Portuguese, Italian, Swedish and Filipino languages. An Indonesian volume is in preparation. The most recent of Kelen's dozen English language poetry books are China Years – New and Selected Poems and a pocket kit. 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 is forthcoming from Intellect Press in the UK.
Address: Prof. Kit Kelen,
English Department,
Faculty of Arts and Humanities,
University of Macau,
MACAO SAR, CHINA