Ways to Say Goodbye

Name: Ways to Say Goodbye
SKU: 20220811-2-1-1
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WINNER PEOPLE’S CHOICE

TIM THORNE POETRY PRIZE, 2025 TASMANIAN LITERARY AWARDS

In this collection the reader is taken through dream sequences, abstract, ekphrastic and imagistic poems as well as deeply personal poems of loss. The effect is a cumulative building of a quiet world of reflective resilience as the poet tries out possible ways to do what is almost impossible – to love and to say goodbye.

These poems, their accounts of the ways art, chance talk, angels, birds, memories and music can come at us with terrible and tender truths, are gifts that teach us how ‘to read the mind of clouds. Kevin Brophy

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About the author

Anne Kellas has lived on the unceded land of Hobart nipaluna since 1986, having spent the first half of her life in South Africa and the UK.

Her writing has appeared in a variety of anthologies and journals in Australia and elsewhere since the 1980s. Her 2015 collection, The White Room Poems, written in response to the death of one of her sons, was shortlisted for the Margaret Scott Prize.